On Sunday, concerns were raised
Tropical storm Hilary has inundated streets across Mexico’s Baja California peninsula with deadly floodwaters, before moving over southern California, where it has swamped roads and downed trees.
The extreme weather Sky News calls “normal”,
The death toll has soared from a severe winter storm that has put much of America into a deep freeze and turned one of the worst-hit US cities into a “war zone”.
Source: Death toll soars as winter blizzard turns city into ‘war zone’
Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would be hot for Death Valley, enormous fires that have sent smoke across North America, and lethal floods of biblical proportions in Germany and China. Scientists have warned for over 50 years about increases in extreme events arising from subtle changes in average climate, but many people have been shocked by the ferocity of recent weather disasters.
Source: Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them
Just days before it was hit with catastrophic floods, Henan endured a major heatwave, Bloomberg noted Wednesday. “The deadly flood shows the unpredictable impacts from climate change are appearing more and more often,” Zhang Jianyu, chief representative at the Environmental Defense Fund’s Beijing office, told the news outlet. “It’s a message to us that it’s time to strengthen efforts to tackle [the] climate change crisis.”
Source: In China, ‘Heaviest Rain in 1,000 Years’ Triggers Deadly Flooding, Landslides | Common Dreams News
Our burning of gasoline, coal and natural gas on a massive global scale, putting tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually, is turning the earth into . . . well, a greenhouse. Greenhouses are closed up, keeping in heat and moisture. In a greenhouse, the moisture might form rivulets down the internal windows. On earth, the skies open to dump lakes worth of water down on people.
Source: With Massive Flooding in Germany, Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control
Let’s call it pollution, unprecedented CO2 pollution which has been increasing at an unprecedented rate and the warming of the planet. Like smoking causes cancer the statistical evidence and correlations are in. Australia has seen and is experiencing the effects of that warming with 9 of 10 record-breaking years this century and a fire season like no other predicted last century and scoffed at. The most significant voice heard in recent times was PM Tony Abbott declaring the science of global warming was “crap”. It cost him his seat of Warringah. Yet the LNP have still been treating the current unprecedented fires accordingly. To Morrison, Craig Kelly, Taylor and others it still is a purely “natural event” with policies in place capable of addressing it. and still claiming we will reach our global emission obligations in a “canter”. “It’s Time isn’t it?” as we are today the worlds biggest polluter with a leadership ethically and morally in total denial. (ODT)
Australia fires: coal industry causes long-term damage as bushfires cost businesses billions
Are India’s extreme weather patterns more evidence of global climate change?
Source: India climate: What do drowning rhinos and drought tell us? – BBC News
‘Biblical’ flooding in the UK has forced hundreds of evacuations, while fatal storms in U.S. have killed at least 43 people
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