Posts Tagged ‘flooding’

Weather Records All Over

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 10/30/2011 @ 3:03:47 PM
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Update: “The most extraordinary October snowstorm in over two centuries in the Northeast U.S. has finally come to an end this Sunday afternoon. Not since the infamous snow hurricane of … [Keep reading >>]

Thailand’s Drowning Year

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 10/24/2011 @ 3:53:23 PM
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The news of Thailand’s incredible rain and flooding keeps being squeezed into back page columns of various newspapers, from Paris to San Francisco.  Though deaths are relatively low, and spread … [Keep reading >>]

Vietnamese Storm Evacuation and African Deaths by Drought

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 07/30/2011 @ 12:00:49 PM
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Following the posts of the other day regarding Texas droughts, Iranian heat records and South Korean flooding we have today extreme weather in the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand as tropical … [Keep reading >>]

Tom Hartmann: Nukes in Nebraska

Filed under: Environment | Nuclear — by Will Kirkland 06/28/2011 @ 10:58:16 AM
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The mainstream news accounts have quoted those responsible for knowing what’s what, that the nuclear plant remains dry and safe. Hartmann says, not so:

You need to know this. The … [Keep reading >>]

The Missouri Competes with the Mississippi for Record Breaking Flooding

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 06/1/2011 @ 1:53:56 PM
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Evacuations are already underway in low-lying areas of western Iowa and eastern Nebraska as the Missouri River rises. Water levels are expected to hit record highs with huge snowpacks melting … [Keep reading >>]

Australian Flooding Moves South

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment | FrontPage — by Will Kirkland 01/18/2011 @ 9:12:29 AM
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The incredible flooding we have been reading out in Australia the last few weeks has been in the North East.  Now it has moved to the South East, with water … [Keep reading >>]

Weather Weather Everywhere and Not A Plan in Sight

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 01/2/2011 @ 3:54:38 PM
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It is hard to get people impressed with the size of the disaster flooding over Australia’s north east province of Queensland.  Should Texas and California be similarly flooded Americans would … [Keep reading >>]

Climate News Pours In

Filed under: Asia | Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 11/4/2010 @ 12:01:34 PM
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Pouring rain and killer floods are not even headlines anymore: flooding is the new normal.  Southern Thailand is nearly under water; the death toll is up to 122, and not … [Keep reading >>]

More Catastropic Floods in China

Filed under: Climate Change | Disaster | Environment — by Will Kirkland 08/22/2010 @ 11:59:09 AM
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For the second or third time in recent months cities in China have been hit with super-deluges and catastrophic flooding.  [See also Tennessee, below] Earlier in August massive mudslides killed … [Keep reading >>]

Monsoon Flood Damage Increased by Man’s Folly

Filed under: Climate Change | Disaster | Environment — by Will Kirkland 08/13/2010 @ 4:51:34 PM
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The lives of tens of thousands in Pakistan and China have been washed away in recent days, some to muddy graves.  Pakistan has been by far the worst hit with … [Keep reading >>]

Massive Rain Fall in North East: Records Shattered

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 03/31/2010 @ 2:40:18 PM
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Northeast hit by record global-warming-type deluge

U.S. media misses the story, while “China spends big to counter severe weather caused by climate change”
March 31, 2010

It’s pretty remarkable that we … [Keep reading >>]

Flooding in Brazil: Climate is Changing

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment | Latin America — by Will Kirkland 05/8/2009 @ 9:33:27 AM
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There may be two or three U.S. senators who deny global climate change. Not the poor souls of Northern Brazil.

“Floods and mudslides from months of heavy rains … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Perhaps an honest world will never exist. But what's to keep us from dreaming? If each one of us tries to change, maybe we'll succeed.

Rita Atria -- The Sicilian Rebel



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