AFP: Global warming behind disastrous typhoon season in China

[DeepModem Mom]

Agence France Presse: Global warming behind disastrous typhoon season in China
Aug 13

Global warming is contributing to an unusually harsh typhoon season in China that started around a month early and has left thousands dead or missing, government officials and experts say.

"The natural disasters caused by typhoons in our country have been many this year," the head of the China Meteorological Administration, Qin Dahe, said in recent comments on his organization's website.

Against the backdrop of global warming, more and more strong and unusual climatic and atmospheric events are taking place.

"The strength of typhoons are increasing, the destructiveness of typhoons that have made landfall is greater and the scope in which they are travelling is farther than normal."...

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Meanwhile, as some areas of China are hit by more typhoons and the resulting floods, other parts of the country are suffering from intense drought, which experts say is another by-product of global warming....

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/13/060814034617.4q4pjlvn.html

[Imperialism Inc.]

1. K&R

for those keeping track of all the results of climate change.

[WhiteTara]

2. and then there are the dead zones in the ocean

but instead of caring for our home and the earth's people, we are embroiled in killing as many people and destroying as much as possible.

IMPEACH BUSH AND SEND THEM ALL TO THE HAGUE

[Barrett808]

3. I'm hoping all the increased cyclonic activity will disrupt the dead zones

Maybe it's a futile hope, but I'd like to see the hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones churning up the eutrophication zones; also, mopping up the extra heat that's killing coral reefs.

[WhiteTara]

4. do typhoons churn up hot water like

hurricanes? I think part of the problem is the heating of the water causes the algae to bloom and the cycle is on.

But biomimicry may have some solutions if we could just get a government interested in life instead of killing.

[Barrett808]

5. Hmm, I don't know.

I thought the dynamics were the same for typhoons and hurricanes. I know Katrina and Rita churned the Gulf pretty fierce -- made me wonder what happened to the giant eutrophocation zone near the Mississippi delta.

[WhiteTara]

7. filled in with sludge and toxins and

houses. No buffer zones for the mouth of the Mississippi.

[mom cat]

6. Hope they get the picture and do everything they can to reduce

their carbon contribution.