China evacuates 500,000 as dangerous floods break worst drought in half a century

Thanks, janforgore. Been so busy here trying to keep up with the encroaching water that I have not had the usual amount of time for ferreting out the news I want. Figure Putin is probably invested in grain. Prices are gonna go through the roof.

Also, people where I am getting insanely high prices for cows, even old cows. Methinks Big Agra is enticing the small, independent producer to sell out and stop producing.

Considering how old the bulk of US farmers/ranchers are, one can't blame them for taking the $ and retiring. But it bodes ill for the long run for consumers. Been sayin for years: If you hate OPEC having a stranglehold on your gas tank, you're gonna really hate Big Agra having that grip on your gut.

Water too. Being bought up by mega corporations while local wells either run dry in drought, or like now, overwhelmed and contaminated by floods in so many places. We are all serfs now.

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

"The USGS monitoring network and modeling activities for water quantity and quality helps us connect the dots to see how increased nutrient run-off in the Mississippi watershed during a historic spring flood event impacts the health of the ocean many hundreds of miles away," said Marcia McNutt, Ph.D., USGS director.

The vast flooding was caused probably by La Niña. During a La Niña episode in the Eastern Pacific, when the equatorial waters cool to several degrees below average, abnormally dry winter weather usually occurs in the southern U.S., and abnormally wet weather in the Midwest. This occurs because La Niña alters the path of the jet stream, making the predominant storm track in winter traverse the Midwest and avoid the South. Cold, Canadian air stays north of the jet stream, and warm subtropical air lies to the south of the jet, bringing drought to the southern tier of states. La Niña's influence on the jet stream and U.S. weather typically fades in springtime, with precipitation patterns returning closer to normal. However, in 2011, the La Niña influence on U.S. weather stayed strong throughout spring. The jet stream remained farther south than usual over the Pacific Northwest and Midwest, and blew more strongly, with wind speeds more typical of winter than spring."

http://www.enn.com/enn_original_news/article/42812

Can't imagine how she got the job.

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

I wonder if the flood victims realize they're being flooded by melted icecap water? I have a new theory. The melted icecap water increased molecular pressure in the oceans, CAUSING INCREASED RATES OF EVAPORATION PING, PING, PING, OFF GOES THE LITTLE MOLECULES INTO THE AIR, LESS HEAT NEEDED.

The flooding is going to increase and LAST LONGER. This is just the beginning folks. Look for more rains out West too. Floods that seem to hang like a basketball in the air headed for the net.

Men may not have caused these floods but their inability to work together to run this planet sure has kept it going downhill.

We have proven men ~and their computers~ are outmatched.

MAN'S CRUMMY SCIENCE IS A FAIL, A FAIL, A FAIL AND A FAIL, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER A FAIL.

Jesus comes soon LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, A DEAD THIEF EVERYONE THINKS IS DEAD. hahaha Come on down Lord Jesus, let's rock.

By the planet . Of course . If we had kept our reason this could have been avoided .

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

http://karachimetrological.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/sub-continent-awaits-monsoon...

"There are many factors which affect monsoon;

La-Nina is a spanish word which means girl. It is a global phenomenon which causes wet and cool conditions in the Sub-continent and other parts of the world. But some parts become dry due to La-Nina. In 2010, some countries witness major floods included Australia, Pakistan, Srilanka, Brazil etc and America witness increased hurricane activity that was all due to La-Nina. The La-Nina started in late June 2010 and will end in late June 2011. The last time this phenomenon occurred was 2003.

What could happen in Pakistan?

Many things could happen to Pakistan this year. So let us take a look;

Floods
Pakistan flooded in 2010

In 2010, Pakistan witness a slow moving "tsunami"

Due to La-Nina, winter rains are still lashing the country in the month of spring which should have been some what hot and dry. Hail storms and snow have covered the mountainous region of Pakistan. If temperatures soar high in the month of May and June, which will definitely happen. Then floods can’t be ruled out keeping in mind that hot summer and monsoon rain accelerates the flood process."

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

Colombia floods are 'unprecedented tragedy'
Torrential rain unleashed by the La Nina weather system has flooded the country, killing hundreds and forcing millions from their homes.

"10:41PM BST 19 Apr 2011

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos warned: “There are going to be a lot of needy people, there has never been a tragedy of this scale in our history.”

Colombia has suffered from the wettest rainy season on record and the floods have been building since December of last year.

Billions of dollars of losses have already accrued with lost property, damaged crops and homes washed away so the national government has been seeking approval from Congress for an additional 5.7 trillion pesos to finance a flood damage fund.

Weather predictions suggest that La Nina will last until June."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/8462292/Columbia-floods-a...

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

"NASA said on January 13, 2011 that a particularly strong La Nina weather pattern of cooler water temperatures is fueling heavy rains and floods in Australia, Sri Lanka and Brazil. “This La Niña has strengthened for the past seven months, and is one of the most intense events of the past half century,” said Climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA/JPL. Australia’s third-largest city Brisbane was turned into a “war zone” with whole suburbs under water and infrastructure smashed as the worst flood in decades hit 30,000 properties. Officials said, the number of people killed in Sri Lanka’s monsoon flooding and mudslides have risen to 27 with more than a million people still displaced by the devastating disaster. In Brazil, authorities have stated that more than a thousand people have been left without homes and 71 lost their lives in Teresopolis alone."

http://www.dawn.com/2011/01/14/la-nina-effect-tragedy-in-january.html

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

"The government says this year's rainy season has been particularly severe as a result of La Nina, a climatic phenomenon caused by a shift in currents in the Pacific Ocean."

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/archive/2011/03/landslides-i...

Predictable and usual weather during La Niña years.

The proof is here. Has been for months. So is the reality. Try doing more than repeating your talking points. And you're only here because you simply can't stop carrying a grudge. These are the only threads you even respond in because of that. You contribute nothing to this site otherwise but unsubstantiated cherrypicked propaganda and anyone who has been here for any length of time knows what you are. Your black and white view of the world is dangerous, and I for one am tired of your redundant predictable exchanges. Hope you're faring well in the drought in the UK. Hopefully you won't get the same floods that carry you away. Now come back with some other predictable British type invectives and feigned alarm at my rudeness or some other victimizing nonsense to detract from the article because you are only here to serve one purpose. See if you get another response.

http://drought.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/drought.html?map=%2Fwww%2Fdrought%2Fweb_pages%2Fdr...

Ah yes, the British drought. It lasted all of six days!
The proof? You mean the weather? These threads are of interest to me whereas others aren't. Am I supposed to have an interest in everything?

Changes are taking place - the planet is cooling down.
The planet will not cool down evenly, just as it didn't warm evenly. What you're seeing now (apart from the predictable weather caused during La Niña years) is a turbulent weather system caused by temperature differences, not so-called Global Warming.

Instead of spending your time fishing out scaremongering news stories written by lazy hacks with no understanding of the subject, why not educate yourself and do some reading about meteorology. It really is a fascinating subject, and it may inject some semblance of reality into your thinking.

It's actually now being called "Climate Change" because "Global Warming" left too many uninformed people to balk at the claim every time we got colder than normal weather. The system is being thrown out of balance which results in extremes on all ends of the spectrum, hot and cold, drought and floods, as well and more violent storms... "Global Warming" was a poor choice of name for what is happening...

Global Warming was a good name for it because there was a period of global warming. This is not in dispute. The assertion was that man's use of fossil fuels was producing CO2 which was warming the planet. The CO2/Global Warming link has since been shown to be fallacious. It is well known that CO2 rises follow temperature rises and not the other way round.
Climate change continues to wreak havoc in some parts of the world while leaving the majority of the planet unscathed, but this has always been the case and will always be the case.
To say the system is being thrown out of balance is misleading. The 'system' was never in balance, that's why we have weather.

So why is it that weather is getting worse? How do we have record breaking winters AND summers in the same year? Record rainfall in some parts of the world and record droughts in others? The tornadoes that devastated Missouri are some of the worst in over a 100 years.

Something is clearly wrong with the system when "wild" weather is suddenly becoming the norm rather than the exception. Call it whatever you want but there is certainly something going on here.

Look at data, not alarmist articles in dubious magazines.
Weather is reported 24/7. The world is more populated, more people notice these weather events and therefore they seem to be getting worse. Real-world evidence and data show otherwise.

During all those many devastations there's ONE COMMON THREAD => The Chinese homes ares STUFFED CHOCK FULL OF FALSE IDOLS.

Looks like the Chinese don't learn so well. Americans neither.

What the fuck are you talking about? False idols like Jesus for example?

This isn't about religion. This is hitting in the BIble belt of the US as well. Republicans in this Congress actually want people to believe this is "God's will" so they don't have to do anything about it. This is very dangerous.

Really, the artificial lifestyles of human beings is doing absolutely nothing to the environment, geez what are we, ghosts!?!?

How do you know they are false, there might been idol of Jesus Christ for all you know.

Prove the flood in 1887 was not caused by man.
Prove the flood this year was caused by man.

Only Jesus Christ of Nazareth can save humankind now. We have lost the fight because there never even was a fight. All the "fight" was spent overseas enforcing United States' unattainable ideals on foreign Natives just like we did to the Native Americans 300 years ago.

THAT JAN IS HOW MUCH WE HAVE PROGRESSED => NOWHERE.

YOUR TIME HAS RUN OUT JAN. YOU LOST.

TRUST IN JESUS EVERYBODY.

CALL ON HIS NAME.

Not to step on what others have already posted, but there are some bad ass weather events in the American Bible Belt, where Jesus is all the rage and has been for generations. Jesus seems to be busy with other things and not finding the time to save anybody's butt.

Whos saying the floods were directly caused by man? I dont see a single person here saying that because it is absurd. However how can you say with certainty that 6 BILLION people burning fossil fuels all day every day to say warm, to travel, to provide electricity, etc. is not having a negative effect on the environment? ESPECIALLY as we continue to deforest the world at an ever increasing rate. Clearly something has to give. Humans still are unable to predict the weather because we arent entirely sure what affects it... why are you so sure? Sounds like denial to me.

Riiiight because mankind was doing so poorly in the 6000 years BEFORE Christ came along. Look its one thing to be religious and delude yourself its another thing entirely to try and play on the fears of others.

Read the posts from your alarmist-in-chief. The assertion is that something is not normal, unless I'm missing something and everyone here agrees that this is just a normal weather cycle?

I am exceedingly GLAD you brought that up! In 1989 I was given to understand how to make a system of lightning attracting towers that were to cover the South's "Lightning Belt" states and they would have been drowning in electric power production, and Deepwater Horizon likely would never have happened IN THE FIRST PLACE.

So yeah, Jesus was busy, helping me have the idea that would have SAVED THE SOUTH'S BACON A THOUSAND TIMES OVER.

The United States Dept. of Energy had other ideas. Jesus showed his stuff through me and they couldn't handle the PAIN of a Jehovah's Witness Christian fixing their spilled porridge for em. Like Burger King, they wanted it their way.

And people are dying from their way. Jesus provided.

The monster breathing hot air on the nape of your neck isn't Jesus.

Yes because only Satan can speak out against religion. Oh wait hes imaginary too...

The sun turned to sackcloth of hair on June 15 dearie, your butt is in the sling, so enjoy mouthing off to make yerself look smart the days remaining that you have.

Along with everything else mentioned in Revelation 6 v 12, all of which you are remaining happily gloriously ignorant about.

Yep

It (the article) is 10 years old, I will see if I can find anything more recent.

Good comments EmileZ

I live in Omaha and have lived here for 25 years -- NEVER in all those years have we had flooding like we're having now. I KNOW all of this happening now is b/c we have ignored our responsibility to Gaia (Earth Mother; Mother Nature).
I just have one question -- IF we started making changes now could we pull it back from the brink, or have we reached the point of no return?

Have noticed something. I am not the only one who talks to myself. But I don't post to myself.

;^)

IMHO, we're screwn.

If things could get better, I doubt we would be reading new articles about drinking urine and eating fillet of poo.

We can only hope . No one is certain if we could pull it back in a lifetime .... we have been at it pretty hard for a while now . What other options have we ?

I think we can if we continue to get this information out and demand action and take action. We don't have any other choice. To ignore this as you see is bringing us to that point of no return, particularly regarding agriculture and water. All over the world people are saying that the floods and droughts they are experiencing are unlike what they have ever seen before. And that is not because of a 24 hour news cycle showing more as some use as an excuse, that is because it is really happening. That cycle along with technology is actually showing the truth of this.

And we also see the same people stating it is all due to la nina as fact, when they don't know that either and as if that absolves us from caring about the effects or that they are any less real. They want people to think those of us who can see the extremes and the subtle changes over the last two decades and our part in them do not believe in natural cycles, which is a red herring. No one, no climate scientist disputes natural cycles.The problem we now have is that extra forcing and loading the atmosphere by human activities is exacerbating the effects of la nina, but they won't say that because it would mean they would have to admit that scientists were right and that fossil fuels/human activities are part of this and that of course overturns their political applecarts and slows down their gravy trains.

We need to just rise above their noise to a level of consciousness that sees the moral imperative of preserving the planet on principle not based on our politics. Planting trees is essential. Changing agricultural policy is essential. And many more are turning to this, but we need to do much more. My thought is this, even if I did believe we had reached a tipping point I still would not give up. I cannot have my child and his face a world where there was even a slim chance that they would not have a liveable world, because it is a world worth fighting for. For them and the rest of us. It's all we have, and failure is not an option we can afford.

Thank you. B4 we moved to Omaha we came to visit, and the thing that struck both of us were all the trees -- I told people that yes, we have trees in Wyoming; they're called sagebrush :-)! There are sooo many more trees here in O and that is a big part of the rsn I love living here. We have a biiiiig tree in the middle of our backyard so when we look out any of the windows facing the back she is in the middle of them. A few years ago I planted 2 red oaks in the front yard b/c the 2 trees in front are way out by the street so we don't get any shade from them. Last year when they demolished the house (that burned down) they ran over one of the little trees -- it lived thru last summer but died this past winter; we cut it down a few weeks ago but left the volunteers around it; I have to go out soon and cut down all but 3 of those volunteers so that the strongest ones will make it thru this summer and next winter. I just had a thot ... maybe I should try pulling out the others to see if I can replant them somewhere else :-).

Planting more trees is a no-brainer for me -- I love looking out my windows and seeing green everywhere; and in the fall when they're yellow, and red, and green and even rust is my favorite time of year :-).

And why would anyone vote down your comment when all you said is just the truth, and common sense????