Record monsoon rains were causing a "catastrophe of epic scale", Pakistan's climate change minister said on Wednesday (Aug 24), announcing an international appeal for help in dealing with floods that have killed more than 800 people since June.
The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but each year it also brings a wave of destruction.
Heavy rain continued to pound much of Pakistan on Wednesday, with authorities reporting more than a dozen deaths - including nine children - in the last 24 hours.
"It has been raining for a month now. There is nothing left," a woman named Khanzadi told AFP in badly hit Jaffarabad, Balochistan province.
"We had only one goat, that too drowned in the flood ... Now we have nothing with us and we are lying along the road and facing hunger."...
Zaheer Ahmad Babar, a senior meteorologist office official, told AFP that this year's rains were the heaviest since 2010, when over 2,000 people died and more than 2 million were displaced by monsoon floods that covered nearly a fifth of the country.
Rainfall in Balochistan province was 430 per cent higher than normal, he said, while Sindh was nearing 500 per cent.
* In the USA:
The summer of big flash floods strikes again.
Up to a foot of rain fell across parts of central Mississippi on Wednesday, leading to life-threatening situations and numerous rescues. The intense rain swept away portions of a highway, while floodwaters partially submerged cars and trees....
The highest totals seen in the past day or two are at least 1-in-200-year or 1-in-500-year rainfalls, rare events that have only a 0.5 to 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year.
A full analysis may show some locations end up with an even rarer rainfall. This flooding event could be the sixth 1-in-1,000-year rainfall in recent weeks in the United States. In other words, it has a 0.1 percent chance of happening in any given year. Increased moisture availability in a warming world is a factor in these events.
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Two causes. The deep state is going hell for leather to create hunger and famine. So of course they won't scruple to use weather warfare. We see them going after Dutch food exports, obstructing Russian and Ukrainian fertiliser, gas and food exports. We see them paying American farmers to not grow anything. We see their billionaire gimps buying up all the land so as to either produce nothing useful or actual harmful rubbish like artificial meat. Its a full spectrum war on food.
The second background cause is the constant loss of soil coming about from post war farming practices. Bill Gates and his ilk are not helping (sometimes I use understatement for effect). You have to eat a regenerative beef burger in order to make up for the CO2 release and soil destruction of eating one of these artificial meat Frankenstein foods.
Now we know how to fix this. And its not through solar panels. Its through herding ruminants in a way to mimic how they would move if they were surrounded by packs of wolves. Its by kitting out the land for water retention. Its about combining pastures with farmers trees.
We must kill this fucking green agenda based on deep state wishes. and orgiastic worship of unreason, and have a green agenda 2.0 that rejects this total irrationalism outright. And that is based around Alan Savoury and Bill Mollison rather than these inbred banking degenerates.
Its so anger-provoking to have that uncaring torpor on the right and this cult of unreason on the left when it comes to water management. Water management takes into account both floods and droughts with the same measures.
Water management ..... OH CO2. Lets get more batteries happening. What is that all about. The worst thing is its taken in one of our best economists. Its just terrible to have someone so good at his own specialty not knowing when he's been taking in by conmen and whores in other fields of study. I won't say who I mean but I think Steve would know.
This is how its done here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpozw1CAxmU
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