Posted on 03/01/2022 5:53:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Scientists have long been warning that extreme weather would cause calamity in the future. But in South America — which in just the last month has had deadly landslides in Brazil, wildfire in Argentine wetlands and flooding in the Amazon so severe it ruined harvests — that future is already here.
In just three hours on Feb. 15, the city of Petropolis, nestled in the forested mountains above Rio de Janeiro, received over 10 inches of rainfall – more than ever registered in a single day since authorities began keeping records in 1932. The ensuing landslides swallowed the lives of more than 200 people, and left nearly 1,000 homeless.
A report published Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) corroborates what many on the ground are witnessing with their own eyes. Global warming is altering the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, such as El Nino and La Nina, the natural heating and cooling of parts of the Pacific that alters weather patterns around the globe. These events have also become more difficult to predict, causing additional damage, the report said.
But most governments across the region have failed to heed the IPCC’s warnings and stop the destruction. Many South American leaders have remained silent about illegal logging and mining activities in sensitive regions. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has gone further, outright encouraging it both with his words and by weakening environmental agencies and regulation.
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Because those things have never happened in the history of the world until white man came along and ruined everything ... right?
The "follow the science" people need to follow it themselves. These land masses were at one time one. Over millennia, they separated. That's a lot of movement. That movement hasn't stopped. Never will. The earth is in a constant state of change.
Yeah, right. Same old B.S.
LOL - Germany just announced they are now considering ALL energy sources to achieve energy independence. They have green-lighted 2 new LNG terminals, and will revive defunct coal plants.
One whiff of reality and the green agenda is GONE!
If you believe we should keep sending aid to South American countries to bring their lifestyles up to first world status, and you believe first world lifestyles create global warming, and you're mad that global warming is causing flooding and wildfires ... you might be a Democrat. LOL
George Orwell warned us of "doublethink". This is case of triplethink. LOL
Think the right name for the AP is “ASS PRESS”!
We lost everything in a “500 year” Mingo Creek flood back in 1976 Tulsa OK.
Eight years later, my brother lost everything in another “500 year flood” in the same area, same Mingo creek.
Weather forecasting is just guesswork.
There was a brutal flood along Sager Creek, Arkansas back in 1974. Worst ever.
But then these were in the COMING ICE AGE hoax years.
On windmills, not sure of the climate change but they surely take out a good number of birds.
Asspress Animal Farm alert.
Of course massive deforestation has nothing to do with it.
Do you suppose activity on the surface of the Sun might have something do with unusual happenings on earth?? You better believe it!!
They need to outlaw volcanoes. I read that one volcano put out more C02 that all of mankind in history.
While their at it outlaw forest fires esp the ones in californicate that get out of hand because of poor forest management.
Dupe report climate change the climate doesn’t have a schedule it has been changing for millions of years with or with humans and it will continue to do so.
/yawn
Yes, and while they are at it, outlaw lightening strikes.
” deadly landslides in Brazil, wildfire in Argentine wetlands and flooding in the Amazon so severe it ruined harvests “
Simply amazing that in the history of mankind these kinds of natural disasters have never happened before.
Bull sh... oh it’s Ass💩 press.
The good news - all of the dogs have been eaten so you don’t have to worry about them anymore.
But what about the 1967 Caraguatatuba Mudslide in Sao Paulo, Brazil that killed 437 people?
Doing a cursory check with Duck Duck Go it seems that Brazil has had a lot of mudslides over the years. It also seems that a lot of Brazilians have moved into the area where these mudslides occur.
One more thing...how diligent do you think Brazilian record keeping has been over the last century? Certainly they have been meticulous in recent years as every greenie on the planet is throwing money at them with every report of an insect found to be on the edge of extinction. But back when Brazil was actively trying to grow and industrialize, do you think they gave a rat’s rear end what the rainfall was in a particular area? Or if a mudslide happened, but there was little to no loss of life?
Yeah, it fluctuates. And these alarmists only take advantage of one bad year, they are silent during the following five good years. lol
Now I think of it, California used to have lots of mud slides back in the 1960s!
I remember a movie, HOW TO COMMIT MARRIAGE(1969) in which Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason ended up up to their necks in a mud slide.
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