Farmers who have their entire cropping land submerged underwater have found they are ineligible for a government flooding hardship fund – because their farms are too far from a major river. #Floods#ukpolitics#farming
The Assembly of First Nations has released a 60-page climate strategy that puts Indigenous knowledge at its centre and First Nations engagement as a priority whenever governments do the work of climate change mitigation.
AFN says the climate crisis has disproportionately affected Indigenous communities and solutions must include them from the beginning.
"Extreme #weather displaced 43,000,000 children in past six years, #Unicef reports - At least 43 million child displacements were linked to #extreme weather events over the past six years, the equivalent of 20,000 children being forced to abandon their homes and school every single day, new research has found.
#Floods and #storms accounted for 95% of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by Unicef and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The rest – more than 2 million children – were displaced by #wildfires and #drought."
"As new #rains threaten the same areas hit by last year’s #floods, #Pakistan finds itself at the mercy of a pernicious pattern: #ClimateChange is driving more intense rainfall, which drives more intense flooding, which stymies #recovery from past floods.
Among all the challenges, the biggest might be #food. The flood’s impact on livestock and farmland has limited Pakistan’s ability to feed its citizens: 10.5 million people are experiencing acute food insecurity."
A family in Lower Sackville, displaced by the floods, is looking for accomodation, with a budget of $1900. Maybe you know someone? Or somewhere? If you're local, please #Boost to try to find some assistance for this family..
#ClimateDiary Note to #Freedom lovers: stop shouting about climate laws restricting your driving or flying. It’s nothing compared to the loss of freedom #Heatwaves and #Floods bring
‘She says being kept indoors by the prolonged extreme temperatures feels reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic. “It’s like being in lockdown again. It brings back the old feeling of staying out as little as possible.”’
Not good. This is the main stem of the Winooski. Since records here began in 1912, it’s only gotten to this volume (15,600 cfs) 3 times, most recently 1936. We’re 1000 cfs and over 1 ft higher than 2011 (Irene).
The Guardian article on the #NYC#rainfall#deluge and #flooding and the analysis on which it is based are okay, but entirely miss the key point - "with every degree (Celsius) of warming, the atmosphere can hold 7% more moisture"[1]. In greater #NY / #NJ the temperature is now about 2.2C over the 1900 - 2020 average [2]. This equates to the atmosphere holding 15.4% more water than average. No "rapid attribution study" necessary. It's simple atmospheric #physics.
Guardian - "Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to #ClimateCrisis. Rapid attribution study finds storm 10-20% wetter after city experienced a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours on Friday"
2000 dead in Libyan flooding.
3 years of rain in 2 days in Greece.
But we're still building flood defences in Ireland based on the historical record and "1 in 100 year" recurrence rates.
This needs to change. We're seeing floods, heatwaves that never occured in the historical record and have 0 chance according to our planning methodology.
We need to change to proper hydrological models driven by climate change projections.
#KUALALUMPUR - Torrential rain in the last few days from the annual #MonsoonSeason inundated six Malaysian states on Dec 27, forcing nearly 27,000 people to seek shelter at relief centres, with the east coast states the worst hit. #Malaysia#TootSEA
People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that forced her out of her home last month, she...
A Photo Series by South African Photographer Gideon Mendel exploring the impact of climate change on populations around the world. A project that began in 2007 with flood disasters in Britain and India, has since expanded to catastrophic rains in Haiti, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil - all pictured here.
The poses are meant to be conventional - while the environment is anything but. The faces tell the story.
Getting little attention, and the numbers of dead are over 300 since this article was published a few days ago.
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A state of humanitarian emergency has been announced in the Republic of Congo, following flooding caused by heavy rains that's been pouring for over a month.
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"This year, to illustrate, the erosions were barely where you see the pipes so from November, here we are on January 02, so barely 2 months of rain, the erosions are already at 150 meters" says a flood victim. "The wish of the population is that now that they have the means, that they arrive. Many parents have lost their lives here because of this erosion" he added.
More than 360 villages and 36 districts were flooded throughout the country, affecting more than 320,000 people. At least 17 people have died and 6 remain missing. Urban planners are concerned by the scale of the disaster, and have called for collective responsibility.
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Victorian city of Bendigo had 91.8mm in the 24 hours to 9am on Monday: its wettest day in records dating back to 1863.
There are now widespread #Flood warnings in Central and North East Victoria.
Warmer atmosphere = increased moisture carrying capacity = higher rainfall intensity = increased #floods = increased insurance premiums for all.
‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’: lives swept away by floods in Kenya (www.theguardian.com)
People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that forced her out of her home last month, she...