Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
JULY 10, 2021
By Paul Homewood
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ripple-effects-extreme-weather-events-144000105.html
Sky’s propaganda report on extreme weather also mentioned flooding in Bangladesh:
The immediate human cost of heatwaves in Canada, flooding in Bangladesh, hurricanes in the United States and wildfires in Australia is of course high.
As any competent journalist should have known, severe flooding in Bangladesh is a common event, something which has always occurred in the majority of years. British Pathe , for instance, have many film footages from the 1970s on the link below. I’d recommend viewing one at random.
https://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/Bangladesh+flood
The headlines give you a flavour:
- 1972 – Monsoon floods bring death and misery –
– Thousands made homeless
– Major air drop of food begins to feed millions facing starvation
- 1974 – Worst floods in living memory
– Millions face famine
- 1975 – 10,000 homeless
- 1976 – Nearly a quarter of the country under water
- 1977 – 200,000 homeless
- 1978 – Army launches massive rescue operation to save victims of floods
And this does not even cover the Bhola cyclone in 1971, which took a half a million lives.
Sadly Sky News and honest, competent journalism seem to have parted company long ago.
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In line with George Orwell’s citation from 1984:
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
On the other hand, the reconstruction indicates long multidecadal wet periods of above normal discharge between ~1560–1600 C.E., 1750–1800 C.E., and ~1830–1860 C.E.
Next, we evaluated the relationship between discharge and 12 historical Brahmaputra flood years in 1787, 1842, 1858, 1871, 1885, 1892, 1900, 1902, 1906, 1910, 1918, 1922 C.E.
We did not find any meaningful or statistically consistent relationship between monsoon season flow in the Brahmaputra River and variance in ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs) or indices such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) (Supplementary Fig. 12). This is consistent with prior studies15,28,69, even though we used a more up-to-date discharge dataset that extends up through 2011.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19795-6
What is different since 1971 is an effective warning and refuge system, which has massively reduced flood/cyclone casualties in Bangladesh. Something often forgotten by posters here who claim recent climate events aren’t killing people…
The 2020 monsoon was the longest since 1988 and caused the worst flooding in a decade. Around a quarter of the country was underwater at the beginning of June. Once major floods happened once in every 20 years. Now they happen once in every five years.
Apparently you ignored the comment right above yours.
“Next, we evaluated the relationship between discharge and 12 historical Brahmaputra flood years in 1787, 1842, 1858, 1871, 1885, 1892, 1900, 1902, 1906, 1910, 1918, 1922 C.E.”
That doesn’t look like every 20 years to me.
There is no such thing as a “climate event”. These are all weather events. And absolutely no one here has ever claimed that “recent [weather] events aren’t killing people”.
Who paid you to type that nonsense?
What is the right number of floods, griff?
“While it is always difficult to directly connect one single weather event to climate change”…..
…but we’ll do it anyway, and exaggerate beyond reason, with absolutely no historical context whatsoever to convince you that this is all unprecedented and ultimately all your fault…. have a nice day.
In your history timeline, you left out George Harrison’s benefit concert for Bangladesh.
Doesn’t the word Bangladesh mean flood? It is the first thing I think of when I see Bangladesh. When you live on a giant flood plain it will flood.
Bangladesh, join the club! There’s no reason the “effects of global warming” should be limited to Maimi street flooding, Mississippi river floods, or heavy storms on the US East Coast.
Yes the past isn’t relevant. Only the last weather calamity that can be framed as caused by the human plague colonizing planet Earth. And they rant and rave about sea level rise threatening Bangladesh when satellites show it gaining territory. How can that possibly happen? Might it be due to the massive river bringing millions of tons of fill from the mountains to the delta every month? It is such a hard job being an end-of-time acolyte when nature insists on following the rule of physics rather than astrology.
History MUST be ignored in order to make the point, right?
There were major floods there in the 1990s.