No it isn't. It was predicted we'd enter La Nina at this point in time when we were still in the El Niño cycle.EVieira wrote:
La Nina is even harder to prove than global warming...

No it isn't. It was predicted we'd enter La Nina at this point in time when we were still in the El Niño cycle.EVieira wrote:
La Nina is even harder to prove than global warming...
Um, no. It's one of the more well-known and documented climatic patterns in the world.EVieira wrote:
La Nina is even harder to prove than global warming...
It's not all to do with La Nina (although this is a staggeringly powerful one), there are other factors in play too. Although obviously that's the dominating factor.Mekstizzle wrote:
FYI... It's to do with La Nina
Hilly areas + landslides + densely populated + poor house/construction = large death toll. Its pretty devastating, can't even imagine what it would be like.EVieira wrote:
Maybe its a coincidence, maybe not...Dilbert_X wrote:
Increased rain/snow is an expected consequence of climate change.....JohnG@lt wrote:
I blame global cooling.
In Pictures: Flood ravaged Brazil
Brazil flood deaths rise to 375
What makes it much more deadly in Brazil is that the region where its flooding is a hilly area, so sudden landslides just bury people alive.
While looking for news on Brazil, found this too:
Australia's floods a glimpse of warmer future
Its really terrible, the body count is over 500 now. But just to put something in perspective here, this is no densely populated poor house construction area. For the most part, these were middle class homes.Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
Hilly areas + landslides + densely populated + poor house/construction = large death toll. Its pretty devastating, can't even imagine what it would be like.EVieira wrote:
Maybe its a coincidence, maybe not...Dilbert_X wrote:
Increased rain/snow is an expected consequence of climate change.....
In Pictures: Flood ravaged Brazil
Brazil flood deaths rise to 375
What makes it much more deadly in Brazil is that the region where its flooding is a hilly area, so sudden landslides just bury people alive.
While looking for news on Brazil, found this too:
Australia's floods a glimpse of warmer future
La Niña and El Niño are well documented and researched, just as is global warming. But the rainfall pattern for this summer is much higher than any previous La Niña/El Niño event. Its just as hard to proove La Nina is responsible for this as global warming.FatherTed wrote:
Um, no. It's one of the more well-known and documented climatic patterns in the world.EVieira wrote:
La Nina is even harder to prove than global warming...
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You're right. Got a new link, the death tool was in the thousands. Its just so much mud that they will probably never really know the actual number.Kmar wrote:
Your Venezuela link is dead. I've been to Caracas, and if only 25 people are dead due to flooding it is a miracle.
Venezualan Floods wrote:
"I don't even want to be here, but I have to be," said Lucia, the supervisor in a children's toys and clothes shop called Comic's Mania. "My brother escaped the disaster by a miracle and my husband is a rescue worker - I'm feeling really low." Her husband, a mountaineer and hang-gliding fanatic, saved a six-month-old baby that was buried up to its neck in mud. The rest of the family has not been found, she says.
Sorry, my first link was dead so I posted a new one, but from the wrong flood. Here is a good one of the right disaster:Gamematt wrote:
Why are you talking about a flood 10 years ago? It may be horrible but not really what this is about.
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I wish once some one would say. " Sorry we were wrong It is not getting Warmer "Dilbert_X wrote:
Increased rain/snow is an expected consequence of climate change.....JohnG@lt wrote:
I blame global cooling.
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This was going to be the worst on record but it ended up coming in slightly lower than the 1974 floods. It of course affected a lot more people due to population growth over the past 36 years, and as a result the financial damage is massive - probably the worst in Australian history. I heard on the radio the other day it's estimated somewhere between $10 - $30 billion, but they said it's very, very hard to make a good estimate as there are so many factors to consider. So I'd guess at this stage the true figure would lie somewhere between those two numbers.Hunter/Jumper wrote:
Is it true that They have had worse and deeper floods in the past ?
Is it also true that they had relaxed Anti Flood Precautions after listening to " Drought Predictions ! " from the people who used to tell us
" the Earth is Warming " ?
Where can we donate BTW ?
Correct on both counts.Hunter/Jumper wrote:
Is it true that They have had worse and deeper floods in the past ?
Is it also true that they had relaxed Anti Flood Precautions after listening to " Drought Predictions ! " from the people who used to tell us
" the Earth is Warming " ?
Anything to help the koalas.Burwhale wrote:
Big thanks to the USA!!!
Oprahs trip to Australia has screened in the US with an intro about the floods in Australia. As a consequence the Flood relief fund has increased by about $20million in one day.
That will help a lot of people in Oz.
Good job America.