Battered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse: report

France24 ^ | July 22, 2022

[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.

[rktman]

🐎💩. The CONvid will take care of that.

[Socon-Econ]

Their battering is caused by communism and corruption, not the weather.

[libertylover]

Sea levels continued to rise at a faster rate than globally,

Uh, how does that happen?

[libertylover]

Their battering is caused by communism and corruption, not the weather.

Yep.

[butlerweave]

They mean battered by Incompetent Governments

[Islander7]

“...longest drought in 1,000 years...”

So, what caused the droughts a 1000 years ago?

[Jolla]

Costa Rica had one of the wettest Mays on record. It was monsoon season for a month although it has dried off the last couple of weeks it was a super wet June too.

[Maine Mariner]

Yes, very good observation.

[Iceclimber58]

After they all come to the US, can we go colonize South America.

[hanamizu]

Uh, how does that happen?

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Good question. When FJB went to the conference in Cornwall there was a picture of the beach from 99 years earlier. The 1923 and 2022 shore lines looked exactly the same. Unless, of course, ‘sea-level’ is a word like ‘woman’ that doesn’t mean what we think it means.

[TigersEye]

Sea levels continued to rise at a faster rate than globally, ...

Not possible. Fill your bathtub and see if you can get the water level higher on one end than it is on the other.

... and the so-called Central Chile Mega Drought -- 13 years and running -- is the longest in at least 1,000 years.

What caused the "Mega Drought" 1,000 years ago? Sports Utility Chariots?

[Go Gordon]

Montevideo (AFP) – Floods, heat waves and the longest drought in 1,000 years:

In other words, there was a drought worse than this one 1000 years ago. What caused it? It certainly wasn't man using fossil fuels. Oh, mother nature doing her thing again.

[ronnie raygun]

All the rat criminal dems including Obama have bought on the shore, tells us that they donot believe the bullsh## their tossing

[achilles2000]

I see the French are whooping it up for the “Climate Change” boogie man. 2nd post I’ve seen pushing this agenda (Kenya is the other one).

[OpusatFR]

Send more money...that’s pretty much the answer.

[rrrod]

Raining like normal in Colombia...

[JD_UTDallas]

“After they all come to the US, can we go colonize South America.”

This! Patagonia is post card perfect. You would think you are in Norway or Sweden. There are parts of Argentina that look identical to big sky country perfect for cattle men and women. Wine grapes thrive in the Mendoza region it’s similar to France. Let’s take a bunch of cattle and wine folks set up some enclaves and fly the Texas flag..there’s a group that did that after the last civil war in Brazil.

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-us-confederacy-americana-brazil-2017-5

[frank ballenger]

Just borrow some money from Venezuela.

[Hiddigeigei]

"Sea levels continued to rise at a faster rate than globally...."
According to Gore, New York City should have been under water by now. But we still have to out up with AOC. Darn!