“California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency on Sunday as wind-whipped wildfires in the north and south of the state gobbled up land, destroyed homes and forced almost 200,000 people to flee.
“In Northern California’s wine country outside San Francisco, the Kincade Fire has grown to about 50,000 acres and is 10% contained, Newsom said Sunday. That’s up from 30,000 acres reported earlier in the day.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/27/us/california-power-outages-fires-sunday/index.html
“After a high of 76 degrees on Saturday we will spend close to 100 consecutive hours with temperatures below freezing this week across a large part of Colorado…
“By Wednesday night and early Thursday morning the temperature in Denver could approach or even fall below zero. Should that happen the all-time October record low will be in jeopardy.”
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/10/27/record-cold-likely-in-denver/
“Since 1950, average temperatures across the state have risen between 2 and 3 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment. They’re projected to increase by 4.5 to 6 degrees by the end of the century.
“The impacts of glaciers disappearing in Montana aren’t just sentimental or tourism-related. Changes to the ecosystem are expected, and they will touch everything from animals to farmers downstream.”
https://www.parkrecord.com/news/in-glacier-national-park-tourists-flock-to-glimpse-dwindling-ice/
“Worldwide, an estimated 80 percent of ocean plastic comes from land as “mismanaged waste.”
“Indeed, in Guatemala, there are almost no properly managed landfills and virtually no public water treatment plants.”
“Torrential rain that caused flooding and mudslides in eastern Japan left at least 10 people dead, with damaged surrounding areas still recovering from recent typhoons.
“Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held an emergency meeting on Saturday and called for “the utmost effort in rescue and relief operations.””
https://www.dw.com/en/heavy-flooding-and-mudslides-leave-10-dead-in-japan/a-51000068
“The amount of damage to the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industry wrought by Typhoon No. 15 and No. 19, which devastated eastern Japan this autumn, topped 170 billion yen ($1.56 billion) as of Oct. 27, according to the government’s calculation.
“Given that overall damage has yet to be tallied, the amount will likely rise even further.”
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201910280045.html
“A convoy of Good Samaritan truck drivers [Queensland, Australia] have shipped truckloads of water to farmers struggling in the crippling drought.
“Rachael Eddy – a concerned truck drivers wife – took it upon herself to organise the much needed shipment
“…in conjunction with Granite Belt Drought Assist.”
“[Pakistan’s] farmers have called upon the government to declare emergency in areas hit by the current heatwave, document the tentative losses incurred by the farmers due to failure of corn, cotton and rice crops and announce an incentive package enabling them to bear the brunt and go for the next crops.
“The government should write off loans of, disburse financial or other assistance to farmers from the heatwave hit areas…”
https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/pakistan-relief-sought-farmers-hit-heatwave
“Oman is bracing for tropical cyclone Kyarr, which is expected to make the mainland in some three days. The category 4 storm is heading towards the country’s west-northwest coast…
“People were cautioned to look out for the early signs of the storm, with Arab Sea waves reaching 3-5 meters.”
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1964736/oman-braces-cyclone-kyarr
“Seven people have so far lost their lives due to the torrential rain which lashed the region of Hafr Al Baten [Saudi Arabia].
“Eleven other people were injured and 16 evacuated by the Civil Defence units which received 1,176 calls for help. The Saudi meteorology authority issued a warning, cautioning against moderate to heavy rain, violent winds and bouts of hailstones.”
http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/635322/Seven-die-in-torrential-rain-in-Hafr-Al-Baten
“At least 908,000 people including internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees and host communities have been either displaced or affected by flooding due to seasonal heavy rains in the northern parts of South Sudan, the UN said on Friday…
“…more than 60 percent of the flood-affected counties are currently classified as facing extreme levels of acute malnutrition caused by floods since July.”
https://africa.cgtn.com/2019/10/26/un-heavy-flooding-affects-908000-south-sudanese/
“Four more people have been killed by ongoing heavy rain in Tanzania, bringing to the death toll to 44, police said on Sunday.
“Edward Bukombe, Tanga regional police commander, told Xinhua by phone that the four victims
“…including three children, were killed by flash floods in different parts of Handeni district.”
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/27/c_138507694.htm
“…the Katse Dam in the Lesotho Highlands – which is meant to provide additional reserves – is sitting at just 13% and the little rain that has fallen, hasn’t helped to increase the water supply.
“The Department of Water and Sanitation claims there is no need to panic, but with a drought looming – Carte Blanche asks: where will the much needed resource come from?”
“If water is life, South Africa is beginning to look dead on its feet.
“Drought is spreading round the country, leaving almost a million people in the Free State without water, forcing Kimberley to shut off water supplies at night, turning the Eastern Cape into a disaster zone, reducing farmers to penury and despair, and sending food prices soaring.”
“The death toll from this week’s freak flash floods in Spain could reach eight after it emerged two foreign tourists staying in a Majorca hotel are unaccounted for.
“A search for the pair, described as a Hungarian brother and sister by local press, restarted today as police and Civil Protection workers in Catalonia continued to try to locate four people feared dead including a mother and son whose prefab bungalow home was washed away.”
“Flooding continued to cause disruption across the midlands and Wales in the aftermath of torrential rainfall across the UK.
“Residents at a care home in Hereford had to be evacuated by boat after the River Wye overflowed and cut off part of the city on Sunday.”
“Winds caused widespread damage, tearing down thousands of trees and leaving around 10,000 households without electricity. A few cities in Vidzeme [Latvia] experienced a total blackout on Sunday night.
“According to the State Fire and Rescue Service, by 19:00 on Sunday rescuers had received more than 150 calls related to the storm damage.”
“Hurricane Pablo became the sixth Atlantic hurricane on Sunday morning in an unusual location… Only one other storm since 1950 has first reached hurricane intensity at a farther north latitude, according to Tomer Burg, an atmospheric science PhD student at the University of Oklahoma…
“Not only that, Pablo is also the farthest east an Atlantic storm has first become a hurricane…”
“The effect that climate change could have on Arctic food webs is dramatic. As it becomes easier for some species to survive and harder for others, an entire food web could collapse or be reshaped from the bottom up.
“This kind of “regime shift” in the Arctic Ocean is an increasingly pressing concern.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/as-the-arctic-heats-up-whats-in-store-for-its-food-webs/
Read the previous ‘Climate’ thread here and visit my Patreon page here.
I wrote a paper on an Environmentally based Economy for a one-world state twenty years ago then proceeded to disseminate it worldwide. I received positive responses from PMs Tony Blair (UK), Helen Clark (NZ), Harry Lee (Singapore) and Malcolm Turnbull (Australia) as well as six Chief Justices from different countries. I also communicated with High Court Justice Michael Kirby of Australia on a regular basis to which his encouragement was given. The concept is based on a cashless society so as to determine which person or enterprise is granted a trading account. For example, drug dealers, weapons manufacturers, and fossil fuel producers would be denied a trading account. This concept in action would have had less impact on the environment and better control global hostilities, But, now we are very close to extinction and global violence remains. In conclusion, humans are irrational and hostile species, just wait till there are food shortages.
Thanks, John. I’ll have a proper look when time allows!