Re: Extreme weather news and discussion
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:05 pm
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Read more here: https://www.inverse.com/science/18-bil ... worldwide(Inverse) SOBERING IMAGES FROM NORTHEASTERN INDIA and Bangladesh this past month show the toll that historic flooding has caused the region. The extreme weather has killed more than 100 people and left 9.5 million more without food or drinking water.
But these 9.5 million individuals are only a fraction of the global population who are likely to face unprecedented flooding, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The research reveals a disturbing figure: 1.81 billion people globally are “directly exposed” to one-in-a-hundred-year floods — a risk that will only worsen as global warming increases the likelihood of extreme flooding.
Thomas McDermott, a lecturer in the economics of climate change at the National University of Ireland Galway, tells Inverse the findings are “quite surprising — in fact shocking.” McDermott is not affiliated with the study but authored a Nature Communications article commenting on the research.
WHAT’S NEW — According to the study, 1.8 billion people, or 23 percent of the world’s population, live in areas exposed to a half-foot of water level rise during once-in-a-century flooding. It’s a figure far higher than previous research suggested.
“In other words, considering a global population of 7.9 billion, almost one in four of the world’s people are exposed to significant flood risk,” writes the study’s authors.
Read more here: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/04/sydney ... ods-damage(Axios) More than 30,000 residents in Sydney were told to evacuate their homes Monday due to "life-threatening" floods.
Why it matters: Australia is facing its fourth round of flooding in less than a year and a half, per the Associated Press. The flooding has been considered one of the worst rounds of extreme weather for the country's most populous city in the last 18 months.
Driving the news: A strong storm on the Southeast coast of Australia has brought moisture inland, combining with rough seas and high winds, according to the Bureau of Meteorology Australia.
• More than 1.6 feet of rain has poured over eastern New South Wales during the last 48 hours, CNN reports.
• Officials reported at least 3 feet of rain after days of torrential rainfall, leading to overflowed dams and broken waterways, per AP.
• Close to 32,000 people were given evacuation orders and warnings due to the widespread floods, New South Wales state Premier Dominic Perrottet told AP.
Climate change is already forcing wine producers to innovate, including moving vineyards to higher altitudes.
Parts of Portugal and Spain are the driest they have been in a thousand years due to an atmospheric high-pressure system driven by climate change, according to research published Monday, warning of severe implications for wine and olive production.
The Azores High, an area of high pressure that rotates clockwise over parts of the North Atlantic, has a major effect on weather and long-term climate trends in western Europe.
But in a new modeling study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers in the United States found this high-pressure system "has changed dramatically in the past century and that these changes in North Atlantic climate are unprecedented within the past millennium".
Using climate model simulations over the last 1,200 years, the study found that this high-pressure system started to grow to cover a greater area around 200 years ago, as human greenhouse gas pollution began to increase.
It expanded even more dramatically in the 20th century in step with global warming.
The authors then looked at evidence of rainfall levels preserved over hundreds of years in Portuguese stalagmites, and found that as the Azores High has expanded, the winters in the western Mediterranean have become drier.
What god is capable of is truly mindblowing. Praying for these people!caltrek wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:47 pm 1.8 Billion People Face Once in a Century Flooding
by Tara Yarlagadda
June 28, 2022
Introduction:Read more here: https://www.inverse.com/science/18-bil ... worldwide(Inverse) SOBERING IMAGES FROM NORTHEASTERN INDIA and Bangladesh this past month show the toll that historic flooding has caused the region. The extreme weather has killed more than 100 people and left 9.5 million more without food or drinking water.
But these 9.5 million individuals are only a fraction of the global population who are likely to face unprecedented flooding, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The research reveals a disturbing figure: 1.81 billion people globally are “directly exposed” to one-in-a-hundred-year floods — a risk that will only worsen as global warming increases the likelihood of extreme flooding.
Thomas McDermott, a lecturer in the economics of climate change at the National University of Ireland Galway, tells Inverse the findings are “quite surprising — in fact shocking.” McDermott is not affiliated with the study but authored a Nature Communications article commenting on the research.
WHAT’S NEW — According to the study, 1.8 billion people, or 23 percent of the world’s population, live in areas exposed to a half-foot of water level rise during once-in-a-century flooding. It’s a figure far higher than previous research suggested.
“In other words, considering a global population of 7.9 billion, almost one in four of the world’s people are exposed to significant flood risk,” writes the study’s authors.
ROME (AP) — Some 17 people remain unaccounted for a day after a huge chunk of an Alpine glacier broke off and slammed into hikers in northern Italy, officials said Monday.
At least six people died and 9 were injured by the avalanche of ice, snow and large rocks thundering down the slope of the mountain topped by the Marmolada glacier Sunday afternoon.
Trento Prosecutor Sandro Raimondi said that 17 hikers were believed to be missing, the Italian news agency LaPresse reported.
Veneto regional Gov. Luca Zaia said some of those hiking in the area on Sunday were roped together as they climbed.
Read more here: https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/ ... en-north/(The National) Italy on Monday declared a state of emergency for areas surrounding the river Po, which accounts for about a third of the country's agricultural production and is suffering its worst drought in 70 years.
The government decree will allow authorities to cut through red tape and take action immediately if they think it necessary, such as to impose water rationing for homes and businesses.
The Po is Italy's longest river. It runs for more than 650 kilometres through the wealthy north of Italy.
But many stretches of the waterway have run dry and farmers say the flow is so weak that seawater is seeping inland, destroying crops.
The government said that the emergency measures would cover lands that bordered the Po and the water basins of the eastern Alps.
While I'm a Christian myself (of the lax, lacking, never praying or going to church mold), this isn't anything that God has wrought - this is the doings of Man. We are to blame for the climate we have now, not Him. We kept pumping carbon into the air, either believing the lies of the oil companies and car makers and their pocketed conservatives, that piddily little Humanity couldn't affect His climate, that we're too small and the earth too big - and think of all those poor coal miners in coal country! Why, they're too illiterate to learn to install something as complex as solar panels and wind turbines, won't someone please think of the coal miners? And over time they built it up into a political issue, and even a religious issue, just for their own profit! Generations of conservatives have turned their backs on science because it's been framed by these charlatans as some affront to God, decency, and all the hard working "little people" to think we could impact the climate, or do anything about it.weatheriscool wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:57 pmWhat god is capable of is truly mindblowing. Praying for these people!caltrek wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:47 pm 1.8 Billion People Face Once in a Century Flooding
by Tara Yarlagadda
June 28, 2022
Introduction:Read more here: https://www.inverse.com/science/18-bil ... worldwide(Inverse) SOBERING IMAGES FROM NORTHEASTERN INDIA and Bangladesh this past month show the toll that historic flooding has caused the region. The extreme weather has killed more than 100 people and left 9.5 million more without food or drinking water.
But these 9.5 million individuals are only a fraction of the global population who are likely to face unprecedented flooding, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The research reveals a disturbing figure: 1.81 billion people globally are “directly exposed” to one-in-a-hundred-year floods — a risk that will only worsen as global warming increases the likelihood of extreme flooding.
Thomas McDermott, a lecturer in the economics of climate change at the National University of Ireland Galway, tells Inverse the findings are “quite surprising — in fact shocking.” McDermott is not affiliated with the study but authored a Nature Communications article commenting on the research.
WHAT’S NEW — According to the study, 1.8 billion people, or 23 percent of the world’s population, live in areas exposed to a half-foot of water level rise during once-in-a-century flooding. It’s a figure far higher than previous research suggested.
“In other words, considering a global population of 7.9 billion, almost one in four of the world’s people are exposed to significant flood risk,” writes the study’s authors.
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Emergency workers rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Saturday. At least 16 people have died and dozens were injured.
Authorities suspended the pilgrimage for two days as rains continued to lash the region. Teams of rescuers from India’s military, paramilitary and police as well as disaster management officials combed through the slippery mountain tracks and used thermal imaging devices, sniffer dogs and through-the-wall radars to locate dozens of missing.
They dug through mud, sand and rocks that swamped the campsites on Friday evening after hurtling down with a gush of water near the cave shrine revered by Hindus. Civilian and military helicopters evacuated the injured to hospitals.
Thousands of people were in the mountains when the rains struck.