Disease Threatens Pakistan Flood Victims
13 August 2010
...Health officials Friday said the lack of clean drinking water and sanitation is spreading diarrhea and other diseases that could threaten lives.
An estimated 1,600 people have died from over two weeks of record flooding in the country brought on by heavy monsoon rains. More storms are expected in the coming days across much of the country....
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Disease-Threatens-Pakistan-Flood-Victims-100611299.html
12 August 2010
Last updated at 13:02 ET
In pictures: Pakistan's flood victims
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10950599
More Flood Misery in China as Mudslides Trap Thousands
Daniel Schearf
Beijing
13 August 2010
Fresh rains in western China have caused more flooding and mudslides, adding at least 20 people to a death toll well over 1,000 in Gansu Province alone. In addition, more than 10,000 people in the province are trapped in rising flood waters. Rescue workers have already been sent to the affected areas and more rains are expected in the coming days....
Link below has audio report.
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Deadly-Mudslides-Continue-in-China-100608914.html
Better predicting is nice, but, the Climate Crisis needs to addressed in EFFECTIVE measuares that reduce emissions of ALL Greenhouse Gases including methane.
Fires, flooding fit into climate change predictions
This summer's weather disasters fit into the pattern forecast by climate scientists in key 2007 report on global warming (click title to entry - thank you)
By Charles J. Hanley
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010
NEW YORK — Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-logged Pakistan, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown.
The weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization says — although those scientists always shy from tying individual disasters directly to global warming.
The experts now see an urgent need for better ways to forecast extreme events like Russia's heat wave and the record deluge devastating Pakistan. They'll discuss such tools in meetings this month and next in Europe and America.
"There is no time to waste," because societies must be equipped to deal with global warming, British government climatologist Peter Stott said.
The U.N.'s network of climate scientists — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — has long predicted that rising global temperatures would produce more frequent and intense heat waves, and more intense rainfalls. In its latest assessment, in 2007, the Nobel Prize-winning panel said these trends "have already been observed."...
