Posted on 06/01/2021 9:06:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MANAUS, Brazil - Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published Tuesday by Manaus’ port authorities, straining a society that has grown weary of increasingly frequent flooding.
The Rio Negro was at its highest level since records began in 1902, with a depth of 29.98 meters (98 feet) at the port’s measuring station.
“If we continue to destroy the Amazon the way we do, the climatic anomalies will become more and more accentuated,” said Virgílio Viana, director of the Sustainable Amazon Foundation, a nonprofit. ” Greater floods on the one hand, greater droughts on the other.”
But in Manaus, 66-year-old Julia Simas has water ankle-deep in her home. Simas has lived in the working-class neighborhood of Sao Jorge since 1974 and is used to seeing the river rise and fall with the seasons. Simas likes her neighborhood because it is safe and clean. But the pace of the floods in the last decade has her worried.
“From 1974 until recently, many years passed and we wouldn’t see any water. It was a normal place,” she said.
“I think human beings have contributed a lot (to this situation,” she said. “Nature doesn’t forgive. She comes and doesn’t want to know whether you’re ready to face her or not.”
Limited access to banking in remote parts of the Amazon can make things worse for residents, who are often unable to get loans or financial compensation for lost production, said Viana, of the Sustainable Amazon Foundation. “This is a clear case of climate injustice: Those who least contributed to global warming and climate change are the most affected.”
Meteorologists say Amazon water levels could continue to rise slightly until late June or July, when floods usually peak.
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“a century of record-keeping”
get longer records.
Then they should build a dam..........................
It's always about money. And limited banking opportunities in the Amazon region? Who would have thought!
Its a big country.
About the same size as the USA.
“HUH?
World’s Oranges, Coffee At Risk As Brazil Runs Out Of Water”
One step ahead of me. I was going to comment that the rivers are rising, climate change, we’re all gonna die, and if that doesn’t work, we’re running out of water, climate change, we’re all gonna die!
Simultaneous equations. X=Y. Y = anything the Rats want it to be.
I thought evolution was supposed to solve these kinds of things. That is what has been taught in public schools and universities.
“You are meaningless; life is meaningless, etc.”
Somehow, if people were consistent with what they teach and promote vs. what they live ... we wouldn’t see such ridiculous articles.
Conditional reporting.
Report, or fail to report, anything in a way that causes the most alarm.
Look at page 6 , Brazil is much larger than the USA. Just the Amazon basin which is only half of.Brazil is as large 3/4 of the lower 48’
https://pubs.usgs.gov/unnumbered/70046378/report.pdf
Some really fascinating facts about the Amazon in this USGS study
The United States measures about 3,717,811 square miles while Brazil is slightly smaller at about 3,286,486 square miles. Although most map projections understate the size of Brazil compared to the United States, the two countries are actually quite close in terms of total area.
If one only takes into account the contiguous United States, which crucially excludes the 663,300 square miles that comprise the state of Alaska, the United States is slightly smaller than Brazil at 3,043,615 square miles. In terms of population, however, Brazil is a much smaller country with 199 million residents compared to the 314 million living in the United States.
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