explod
explod
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In Columbia in the last few days we see cars, trees, houses, many people buried and drowned(including many young children) washed away. Deforestation there has played its part but the huge and sudden rainstorms the direct culprit. The same in Indonesia, (now), many people buried in a rain driven landslide. At the same time the north eastern states in Australia, well you know about that. However the rains and storms are in strips and the rest, untouched and over increasingly large areas people are starving and moving out due to these increasing droughts, particularly Africa.
Why, full on global warming, now not only driven by our own pollution but by many multiples more from the methane releases due to permafrost melts at the two poles, Greenland (yep noco 1000 years back but not on this magnitude) and the northern tips of continents across Scandanavia, Russia, Ukraine etc.
This is causing the poles to warm, which is causing more moisture to rise, increasing wind and rain towards the equator. We have lost our steady seasonal rains here in the south which came in off the south west trade winds (as the early sailing ships did from England) All gone now, as was the mud up to the knees on our farm from May till November every year till the first drought of 68.
And on our recent floods there are many descriptions that they are the worst in 60 years etc etc, blah bla. Rubbish, collectively this is the worst in recorded history. If it had been anything like this before would they have built their towns, hotels, houses and highways there, of course not.
And the insurance companies to name a little start, there is going to be some serious head scratching.
The climate change is unfortunately going to sweep us all (including the sceptic deniers) away before we have time to correct things. But you were told, not very accurately I'll admit but in fact science can at best only follow behind. It is unpredictable but it is certainly happening and now.
Why, full on global warming, now not only driven by our own pollution but by many multiples more from the methane releases due to permafrost melts at the two poles, Greenland (yep noco 1000 years back but not on this magnitude) and the northern tips of continents across Scandanavia, Russia, Ukraine etc.
This is causing the poles to warm, which is causing more moisture to rise, increasing wind and rain towards the equator. We have lost our steady seasonal rains here in the south which came in off the south west trade winds (as the early sailing ships did from England) All gone now, as was the mud up to the knees on our farm from May till November every year till the first drought of 68.
And on our recent floods there are many descriptions that they are the worst in 60 years etc etc, blah bla. Rubbish, collectively this is the worst in recorded history. If it had been anything like this before would they have built their towns, hotels, houses and highways there, of course not.
And the insurance companies to name a little start, there is going to be some serious head scratching.
The climate change is unfortunately going to sweep us all (including the sceptic deniers) away before we have time to correct things. But you were told, not very accurately I'll admit but in fact science can at best only follow behind. It is unpredictable but it is certainly happening and now.