Steelmakers in Asia may be forced to pay as much as 33 percent more for hard coking coal after the worst floods in 50 years in Australia’s Queensland state disrupted output from the world’s biggest shipper of the fuel.
COLOMBIA CLOSE TO 2 MILLION HOMELESS BOGOTA – The toll from weeks of heavy rains across Colombia has risen to 174 people dead and over 1.5 million homeless, the Colombian Red Cross said Saturday. VENEZUELA, 73,000 HOMELESS And in neighboring Venezuela to the east, driving rains have triggered flooding and cave-ins that have killed 34 [...]
China Evacuates 51,000 People in Liaoning on Floods By Luo Jun, Li Xiaowei Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) — Chinese authorities evacuated 51,000 residents in the northeastern province of Liaoning as the Yalu River flooded parts of Dandong City, state-run Xinhua News reported. Three people were missing as of 7 a.m. local time and the rising waters [...]
Flood victims fled the areas under water in the Sindh Province in Pakistan on Friday By CARLOTTA GALL, Published: August 20, 2010 Mulitan, Pakistan – Surging waters are shifting flood damage southward in Pakistan, as the water level rises at one of the main flood barriers north of the city of Hyderabad, officials said Friday. [...]
Disease Hovers Over Pakistan’s Flood-Stricken Children By Michael Georgy CHARSADDA, Pakistan (Reuters), Aug 18 – As Pakistan’s floodwaters rushed into Bakhmina Said’s mud-brick home, she grabbed medical records of her daughter’s heart condition, put them in a metal trunk and headed to high ground. Eighteen days later, one-year-old Naeema sleeps on a mat in sweltering [...]
I like to use a pot of boiling water as an analogy for Global Warming. All of us have seen pots of boiling water, since this was the first way humans produced cooked foods. We did throw parts of animals and vegetables into fires in the Neolithic ages in order to cook our foods, but [...]
