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Watch: Cars carried away by floodwaters as month’s worth of rain pelts Malta
Watch: Cars carried away by floodwaters as month’s worth of rain pelts Malta People trapped in cars, homes flooded, walls collapse The scene in an Msida street on Thursday morning. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier Flash floods carried away cars, collapsed walls and trapped motorists in their submerged vehicles after a month’s worth of rain fell […]
Rising flood waters surround aid camp in South Sudan putting tens of thousands at risk
Rising flood waters surround aid camp in South Sudan putting tens of thousands at risk Aid workers fear that protective mud dikes could soon break, leaving thousands of children in 1.5m deep murky water A displaced persons camp with the same population as Oxford is surrounded on all sides by rising flood waters. Aid workers […]
Terry Glavin: The scale of the disaster unfolding in B.C. is unprecedented
Terry Glavin: The scale of the disaster unfolding in B.C. is unprecedented The sheer damage to basic infrastructure caused by the flooding is catching everyone unprepared Abandoned transport trucks are seen on the Trans-Canada Highway in a flooded area of Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. PHOTO BY DARRYL DYCK /Canadian Press VICTORIA — At […]
“Cry Me A River”
“Cry Me A River” I got a Facebook message early this week from a friend in Sacramento CA that said after over 200 days with no rain, she got 4.83 inches in a 24-hour period from the latest extreme rainfall that occurred over northern California. Others have reported up to a foot of rain in […]
14 Million People Under Flood Warning As Storm Batters Mid-Atlantic
14 Million People Under Flood Warning As Storm Batters Mid-Atlantic More than 14 million people are under a coastal flood warning early Saturday after heavy rains and strong winds unleashed flooding across the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area on Friday. “The neighbors who have been here a long time say it hasn’t been this high since Isabel, […]
Northern California Swamped With “Historic Rain” Amid Rare Atmospheric River Event
Northern California Swamped With “Historic Rain” Amid Rare Atmospheric River Event The National Weather Service’s (NWS) Sacramento office said “potentially historic rain” rain has fallen in parts of Northern California after a bomb cyclone accompanied an atmospheric river that unleashed massive amounts of moisture pulled in from the Pacific Ocean. Northern California bore the brunt late Saturday/Sunday, with record […]
Bomb Cyclone To Unleash Atmospheric River Over Northern California
Bomb Cyclone To Unleash Atmospheric River Over Northern California A “bomb cyclone” will unleash an atmospheric river Saturday night into Sunday across Northern California. “By Saturday night, a rapidly intensifying Pacific cyclone directing a powerful atmospheric river squarely at the West Coast delivers a fire hose of rich subtropical moisture into California,” the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) […]
Tiny North American Oat Crop Could Be Coming for Your Breakfast
Tiny North American Oat Crop Could Be Coming for Your Breakfast The smallest harvest ever in the U.S. is expected to shrink supplies needed for everything from Cheerios to oat milk A drought struck North America’s oat fields this season, and farmers are harvesting such a small crop that prices have risen to record highs, signaling inflation for breakfast […]
Signs The Worst Winter in Years is Coming
Signs The Worst Winter in Years is Coming “You think winter will never end, and then, when you don’t expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light” – Wendell Berry. It’s hard to think about winter when many regions are broiling in the sun right now, but there are […]
The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk” So-called rationalists have created a disturbing secular religion that looks like it addresses humanity’s deepest problems, but actually justifies pursuing the social preferences of elites. In a late-2020 interview with CNBC, Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn made a perplexing statement. “Climate change,” he said, “is not going to be an […]
Summer 2021 Hotter Than ‘Dust Bowl’ Of The 1930s, NOAA Says
Summer 2021 Hotter Than ‘Dust Bowl’ Of The 1930s, NOAA Says The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed in a new report that the average temperature during this summer for the contiguous U.S. was hotter than the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. The meteorological summer between June 1 to Sept. 1 averaged 74F for the U.S., or […]
Plunging Crop Supplies Send Prices Soaring And Reignite Food Inflation Fears, WASDE Reports
Plunging Crop Supplies Send Prices Soaring And Reignite Food Inflation Fears, WASDE Reports The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report was released Thursday afternoon and pointed to declining grain supplies that sent grain futures prices higher and will keep food inflation in focus. The closely watched supply and demand report slashed estimates for corn […]
200 Million Americans Roast In Two Massive “Heat Domes”
200 Million Americans Roast In Two Massive “Heat Domes” At the beginning of the week, we told readers the dog days of summer have finally arrived with above-average temperatures for most of the country. By late Thursday, watch/warning/advisory alerts for dangerous heat extended to nearly 200 million Americans as multiple heat domes scorch the Pacific Northwest, Central […]
Frost Bites Brazilian Sugar Crop As Prices Zoom Higher
Frost Bites Brazilian Sugar Crop As Prices Zoom Higher Brazil’s top producing regions for coffee, oranges, and sugar have been devastated by the worst weather in decades and could leave a lasting impact on prices, according to Bloomberg. The South American country is one of the world’s leading coffee, sugar, and orange producers experienced a cold snap and drought this […]
All of a sudden: Climate change tipping points appear with a vengeance
All of a sudden: Climate change tipping points appear with a vengeance Across the world climate change seems to have arrived earlier than expected. There are world-class athletes with bodies trained for endurance and strength breaking down from the extreme heat visited on the Tokyo Olympics by mother nature. There are the continuing wildfires in the American […]
