The New York Times notes something I had been meaning to post about:
Chad. Vietnam. Austria. The American South.Sorry to mention again, but I started saying years ago that increased flooding was likely going to be the first effect of climate change as a really bad thing (economically and socially) that really caught people's attention.
In very disparate regions of the world, extreme rainfall in recent weeks has killed thousands of people, submerged entire towns, set off landslides and left millions without power. It’s a harbinger of the wild weather events that are a hallmark of climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, and it is highlighting the need to urgently adapt, in rich and poor countries alike.
Bursts of extreme rainfall are making both coastal and riverine flooding more dangerous and unpredictable.
“Extreme events are getting stronger everywhere, so we should expect floods to be bigger regardless of where we are,” said Michael Wehner, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “There is no question that these kinds of floods all over the world are getting worse.”
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And I told you ficking years ago it’s got nothing to do with CO2 but you are a slow learner. Weather is electrical. And our magnetic field is weakening. Letting more electrical energy into the system.
It got so extreme that a pretty small solar outburst in April lead to the “northern lights” extending as far as Puerto Rico.
So get on board with reality because what it means is that it will be very hard to maintain any kind of electrical grid at all into the 2030’s.
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