Pakistan still struggles with disaster preparedness, exposing the reality for less-developed countries that contribute minimally to climate change but bear the brunt of its impacts as pledged funding fails to appear. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/04/climate-finance-aid-billions-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #floods #climatechange #pakistan
Waiting for floodwaters to recede, women in Chung, Pakistan, have limited access to sanitary pads and essential medicines, including pregnancy-related care. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/asia-pacific/society/floods-women-pakistan-camps/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #pakistan #southasia #floods #women039sissues
Houses lie submerged in water from the Lonza River after the May landslide. Scientists say melting permafrost and glacial instability likely contributed to the severity of the landslide, Blatten, #Switzerland
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Jonathan Schofield
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A girl sits on the rubble of her damaged home after flash floods. Heavy monsoon rains have continued to pummel the Indian subcontinent, bringing devastating flooding and landslides and killing hundreds of people in one of the deadliest monsoon seasons in recent years, Pir Baba, #Pakistan
Photograph: Muhammad Sajjad/AP
A girl sits on the rubble of her damaged home after flash floods. Heavy monsoon rains have continued to pummel the Indian subcontinent, bringing devastating flooding and landslides and killing hundreds of people in one of the deadliest monsoon seasons in recent years, Pir Baba, #Pakistan
Photograph: Muhammad Sajjad/AP
Beijing has experienced three deluges since 2012 that forecasters said could only happen once every 100 years, and climate experts warn there is a growing risk of disasters on a previously unthinkable scale. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/21/climate-change/arid-beijing-wetter-future/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #china #climatechange #floods
Pakistan ordered businesses, schools and public offices in Karachi to shut on Wednesday after torrential monsoon rain left at least 10 people dead in the densely populated port city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/asia-pacific/pakistan-karachi-rain-flooding/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #pakistan #karachi #floods
In just minutes, a torrent of water and rocks swept down on a remote Pakistani village on Monday, destroying at least 15 houses, damaging several others and killing nine people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/asia-pacific/survivors-pakistan-cloudburst-flood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #pakistan #floods
Two days of intense monsoon rains have killed over 330 people across the mountainous north of Pakistan, with water, rocks and trees swept down mountainsides and burying homes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/asia-pacific/flash-floods-buner-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #pakistan #floods
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan have killed at least 199 people in the past 24 hours, national and local officials said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/16/asia-pacific/monsoon-rains-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #floods #rain #pakistan
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the city of Tamana and the town of Nagasu in Kumamoto Prefecture at 12:20 a.m. on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/rain-emergency-kumamoto-kyushu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #floods #kyushu
The Meteorological Agency warned of landslides, river flooding and inundation in low-lying areas of Fukuoka Prefecture on Sunday as heavy rain continued in the Kyushu region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/10/japan/japan-heavy-rain-kyushu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kyushu #fukuoka #floods #landslides
"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."
"But most importantly, natural disasters are a reminder to 'repent or perish,' because see point #1 about living in a fallen world."
"Following Hurricane Helene last fall, the 'Standing for Freedom Center' explained that the death and destruction of a natural disaster must be understood through 'sound Christian doctrine,' which is why no one should think that the hurricane had anything to do with 'climate change,' which isn’t real, and is in fact 'a fabricated crisis that is weaponized by the global elites.'”
"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."
Doktor Zoom explains why, in Texas, getting politicans to enact legislation assuring that summer camps for children (many of them church-based) are safe is an uphill climb:
"For a lot of fundagelical Christians, taking care of each other is something people should only do on their own, because God wants government to be very, very limited."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-texas-could-require-less-drowny
"Following Hurricane Helene last fall, the 'Standing for Freedom Center' explained that the death and destruction of a natural disaster must be understood through 'sound Christian doctrine,' which is why no one should think that the hurricane had anything to do with 'climate change,' which isn’t real, and is in fact 'a fabricated crisis that is weaponized by the global elites.'”
Doktor Zoom explains why, in Texas, getting politicans to enact legislation assuring that summer camps for children (many of them church-based) are safe is an uphill climb:
"For a lot of fundagelical Christians, taking care of each other is something people should only do on their own, because God wants government to be very, very limited."
#Texas #evangelicals #floods #ClimateChange
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/sure-texas-could-require-less-drowny
Chinese authorities are evacuating over 82,000 people across Beijing at risk from heavy rainfall, state media said, following flooding in the capital's suburbs last week that killed dozens. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/05/asia-pacific/society/beijing-evacuates-heavy-rains/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #beijing #china #floods
Hiroshima’s annual ceremony for world peace was canceled in 1950 due to the Korean War. Fifty years later, in 2000, land prices across Japan were still struggling to recover from the burst of the asset bubble. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/02/japan/history/hiroshima-peace-tokyo-floods-land-prices/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #floods #hiroshima #koreanwar #terrorism #malaysia #japaneseredarmy #realestate #japaneseeconomy
Extreme weather has killed at least 30 people in Beijing after a year's worth of rain fell in a matter of days, with much of the rain inundated the Chinese capital's mountainous north near the Great Wall. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/asia-pacific/society/beijing-extreme-rain-kills/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #beijing #floods #china
Michael Bacon
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Yesterday: I've had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodplain without an adequate warning system. More pain. More loss. https://www.texasobserver.org/flooding-houston-hill-country-planning/
#water #environment #rivers #floods#Texas #politics#USpol#ClimateChange #weather #history #news