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[PS_RalphW]

The population of India is rising by 50,000 a day. These tragic deaths will have knocked that back by 6 hours max.

Misguided population control measures in the 1970s have made the topic politically toxic in India. The Indian sub-continent will be a dire place 20 years from now.

[emordnilap]

Alberta to help victims in flood zones for last time as province urges people to rebuild on higher ground

More here.

[Billhook]

Ralph - I'm afraid you're mistaken about the 6hrs offset -

The degree of damage, with reports of 450 villages destroyed or battered,
with huge numbers of peoples' homes, businesses, livestock and farmland wiped out,
will impose an impoverishment that will predictably generate increased childbirth.

This has to be the most perverse of all climate feedbacks in my view.

Regards,

Lewis

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[emordnilap]

Pakistan flood deaths

They're used to monsoons but apparently things are getting worse.

[emordnilap]

'Atmospheric rivers'

[emordnilap]

North Korea floods kill 13 people.

[emordnilap]

Calderdale again.
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[emordnilap]

And Burma. And Indonesia.
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[adam2]

No one flood or series of floods can be blamed on CC, disasterous floods have occured since long before anyone had heard of climate change.

However the overall increase in the number and severity of floods does very strongly suggest a changing climate.

So called 100 year floods are now happening every few years in many places.

Not only do higher sea temperatures lead to more evaporation, and thus more percipitation, but the higher air temperatures increases the amount of rain relative to snow.
Snow falling on high ground usually melts fairly slowly without causing downstream flooding.
If the same amount of water falls as rain, it tends to run off at once and cause destructive floods.

Later on, drought may be a problem without the slow steady snow melt to provide water all year.
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[Billhook]

Adam - the standard line pushed by Obama, the prevaricators and the self censorship brigade has been:
"No single extreme weather even can be blamed on climate change"

when the accurate (honest) assessment was that:
"No single extreme weather event can be blamed solely on climate destabilization."

But in the last few years with the accelerating loss of the Arctic ice in summer,
the reality is now that:

"With anthropogenic global warming having destabilized the jetstream that governs the northern hemisphere's weather,
all weather events we experience, including both 'normal' and increasingly common extreme ones,
are the product of society's pollution of the ecosphere."

Regards,

Lewis

[ujoni08]

We should also have a 'drought watch' thread...



http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/new-mexico-reservoir-has-just-3-percent-water-it-held-1980s-and-90s.html

[biffvernon]

Oh, for a moment I thought that was Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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