Queensland’s floods have cost grain farmers an estimated $400 million

[ScienceRocks]

It maybe boring for most people, but not for me...I enjoy posting on each event and promise to keep it within this one thread.

 

[Bern80]

It is absolutely asinine to ignore the scientific evidence that we have created many of these problems ourselves through the amount of GHGs that we have put into the atmosphere.

When you consider the miniscule percent of the atmosphere those GHGs make up and man's minsicule contribution to them relative to all other sources, the amount of time we could have had any effect on an environment that has been around far longer than we have, for man to believe he is powerful as to be able to control the climate changes on this planet is indeed asanine.

 

[Old Rocks]

When you consider the ignorance that is represented by Bern's post, you wonder if he ever finished the third grade.

 

[Bern80]

When you consider the ignorance that is represented by Bern's post, you wonder if he ever finished the third grade.

As oppossed to your delusions of grandeur?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Many annual records broken in Queensland’s Fitzroy basin,with stations reporting two to three times the mean:

Springsure,wettest year since 1865 when records began.

Taroom,wettest year since 1870 since records began.

Bauhinia Downs,wettest year since 1890,ditto

Injune,wettest year since 1925,ditto

December 27th saw record 24hr totals for some stations.

Record river heights recorded on the Dawson and Nogoa Rivers within the Fitzroy basin,and on several other rivers in other catchments

Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology will have a special statement available within a week or two.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Heavy floods leave 20 dead in Brazil in past week

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities say steady rain over the past week has flooded creeks and created landslides in southeastern Brazil, killing 20 people and forcing thousands out of their homes.
Civil defense officials in the state of Mines Gears released a statement saying that seven people died Monday, including a 6-month-old baby, when a hillside collapsed on their home. Other victims include a man who drowned in an overflowing creek Wednesday, and four others who died Thursday in a landslide. Authorities say 29 have been injured, and 965 are homeless.

Officials in Esparto Santo state said in a statement that five people died this week in the floods: three when their house collapsed, one trying to cross a bridge over an overflowing river, and one swept up by floodwaters. Sixteen people have been hurt there, and 551 are homeless.
News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com news/ world/ 2011-01-03-brazil_N.htm

 

[Old Rocks]

Finally they are covering the Queensland floods on the nightly news. Stated that an area the size of Texas is covered by water. And the crest is still days off. In the meantime, on the other side of Australia, record temps. Interesting.

 

[shintao]

I see. They happen every year at the rate that they have been happening in the last two or three years?

I just received a letter via email from Canada. He has a friend down under reporting some areas are 12' under water and expected to go to 30 feet. I hadn't heard any of this, so looked around. Here are pictures of the flooding they are having.

New flood pictures | Courier Mail

 

[Old Rocks]

NOAA reports 2010 hottest year on record so far, while Arctic sea ice extent hits a stunning December low Climate Progress

December 29, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Hi,

I’m currently living in Sydney Australia, the extrema weather here is beyond a joke. We have heat a wave in Western Australia, snow in Tasmania and flood’s in South Central Queensland, Northern New South and Victoria. The floods cover thousands of square kilometers, which is good to restore the moister back in the ground after more then a decade of drought, but for the farmers it’s suicidal. And as much of our grain crop feeds the third and developing world’s, there will be catastrophic price increase in the months ahead. Regards ED