{"id":254,"date":"2007-10-16T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T21:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/10\/16\/floods_asia\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T18:52:16","slug":"floods_asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/10\/16\/floods_asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods Devastate Asia and Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The author of today&#8217;s post is Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/natural_hazards_v2.php3?topic=flood\">raining a lot<\/a> in some parts of the world. In Northern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reliefweb.int\/rw\/RWB.NSF\/db900SID\/YSAR-77VM3V?OpenDocument\">the worst rains in decades<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/10\/05\/MN8IRVS55.DTL&amp;feed=rss.news\">devastated tea and rice crops<\/a>, killed at least 3000 to 4000 people, and affected tens of millions of people since June. Great tracts of land are under water. Crop land has been destroyed; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6934548.stm#anchor\">people are hungry<\/a>. And the weather forecast says rain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/oa\/climate\/research\/2007\/aug\/aug07.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Extreme Climate Events, 2007\" src=\"\/climate411\/wp-content\/files\/2007\/10\/extremes-200708.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Click image to view original page.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Torrential rains also have caused <a href=\"http:\/\/ochaonline.un.org\/\">severe flooding in Korea, Uganda, and Sudan<\/a>. In North Korea, over 600 people are dead or missing, 170,000 people displaced, and almost 1 million people affected. In Sudan, 200,000 are homeless from floods. India, itself reeling, sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newspostindia.com\/report-18086\">$250,000 in aid to flood-ravaged Uganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this all from global warming?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/environmentaldefense.org\/page.cfm?tagID=985\">James Wang, Ph.D.<\/a>, a climate scientist at Environmental Defense, and he said, &quot;This is definitely consistent with global warming predictions. You can never be sure about a specific weather event, but when extreme events happen simultaneously in many parts of the world and long-standing records for rainfall are broken, odds are that global warming is an important factor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The crises in Asia and Africa show that we can&#8217;t just &quot;adapt&quot; and take our time to find solutions, as <i>Cool It<\/i> author Bjorn Lomborg recommends. There&#8217;s already significant human suffering from global warming, especially in developing countries. Still, it&#8217;s not too late to act, and in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/09\/27\/our-message-to-white-house-major-emitters-meeting\/\">we must act<\/a>. If we don&#8217;t, the consequences will only get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of today&#8217;s post is Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense. It&#8217;s been raining a lot in some parts of the world. 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