Worldwide extreme weather
Posted by Jimalakirti in Climate Change
at 10:55 am on Saturday, 22 January 2011
at 10:55 am on Saturday, 22 January 2011
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — In the past year, every continent except Antarctica has seen record-breaking floods. Rains submerged one-fifth of Pakistan, a thousand-year deluge swamped Nashville and storms just north of Rio caused the deadliest landslides Brazil has ever seen.
Southern France and northern Australia had floods, too. Sri Lanka, South Africa, the list goes on.