Posted on 07/22/2022 1:11:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Montevideo (AFP) – Floods, heat waves and the longest drought in 1,000 years: Latin America is grappling with devastating climate change impacts that will only get worse, a World Meteorological Organization report warned Friday.
In its State of the Climate report for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for 2021, the WMO said ecosystems, food and water, human health and welfare were all taking a battering.
Sea levels continued to rise at a faster rate than globally, and the so-called Central Chile Mega Drought -- 13 years and running -- is the longest in at least 1,000 years.
Meanwhile, deforestation rates "were the highest since 2009, a blow for both the environment and climate change mitigation," said the report.
Brazilian Amazon deforestation doubled from the 2009-2018 average, with 22 percent more forest area lost in 2021 than the previous year.
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How many of those nations beaches and islands are sinking because they’re on a quake fault line? Which will drag an island down.
How does rising sea levels only effect places, more, who beg for US tax dollars?
Paging Doctor Goebbels.
After they all come to the US, can we go colonize South America.
If that happened South America would be the richest, strongest nation in the world. North America would be bankrupt and impoverished.
The drought has been brutal here in Costa Rica. We only had 44 inches of rain in June.
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