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malaise

(269,091 posts) Sat Aug 18, 2018, 05:28 AM Aug 2018

Well over 300 people died in Kerala, India from unbelievable flooding

One month of rain fell in four days. Remember now folks, there is no limited change.

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Well over 300 people died in Kerala, India from unbelievable flooding (Original Post) malaise Aug 2018 OP

republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone Achilleaze Aug 2018 #1

Gravity at work in saturated terrains Submariner Aug 2018 #2

Yep but few spots on our planet can handle a month's rain in four hours malaise Aug 2018 #3

Climate change, all right. But let's add in Hortensis Aug 2018 #4

Valid point malaise Aug 2018 #5

That'll be an interesting conversation. Hortensis Aug 2018 #6

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

1. republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Aug 18, 2018, 06:07 AM

Aug 2018

republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone
republican lies about climate change are dangerous for everyone

Submariner

(12,504 posts)

2. Gravity at work in saturated terrains

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Aug 18, 2018, 09:48 AM

Aug 2018

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malaise

(269,091 posts)

3. Yep but few spots on our planet can handle a month's rain in four hours

Reply to Submariner (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 18, 2018, 09:52 AM

Aug 2018

So sad - and the poor suffer the most.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

4. Climate change, all right. But let's add in

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:00 AM

Aug 2018

the effects of increased land clearing and greatly increased population because those are factors that can also be worked on. Future projections for many nations are encouraging as populations will actually start decreasing mostly on their own, but India's are not so good.

(Note that, though U.S. projections assume some growth, birth rates for the U.S. born middle classes have been well below population maintenance levels for some while.)

malaise

(269,091 posts)

5. Valid point

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:02 AM

Aug 2018

I'll ask one of our neighbors later - one of them is from Kerala.
In fact his wife and two young boys are there now.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

6. That'll be an interesting conversation.

Reply to malaise (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:09 AM

Aug 2018

Nothing like sources on the scene.

One of our DUers was flying to join his family in Japan in a region of major rains and flooding -- while a typhoon was approaching no less. Unfortunately, if he posted on it later I missed it.

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