is what we can expect over the rest of the century.
340,000 Flee Flooded Indonesia Capital
At Least 20 Killed After Days of Rain
By IRWAN FIRDAUS
AP
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Feb. 4) - Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 20 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said. http://news.aol.com/...
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Chinese drought affects millions
At least 18 million people have been affected by China's worst drought in 50 years, according to the state news agency Xinhua. The south-western region of Chongqing has been worst hit, but areas of Sichuan and Liaoning are also affected.
In Chongqing there has been no rain for more than 70 days, and two-thirds of the rivers have dried up, Xinhua said.
[...]By 15 August this year, natural disasters had killed 2,006 people, affected more than 316m others and caused economic losses of 160bn yuan ($20bn), the ministry estimated, according to Xinhua
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Yeah I know people here at Kos get it. But do people in rest of the country look at the news and understand what the ominous prediction in the recent report on climate change mean?
Do they understand what "The dry areas will get drier and the wet areas will get wetter predict?"
Do they understand that while we had fewer hurricanes this year, the typhoons in the East were deadly?
Do they see the coming refugee problem? or the water wars?
How do we make the impact clear?
Chronic drought conditions create hardship in Australian rural areas
By Alan Leigh
21 December 2006
One of the worst droughts of the past century is having a devastating impact on farmers and rural communities across much of Australia.
During a national water summit last month, the Murray-Darling river basin commission dramatically announced that the drought could be the worst in 1,000 years. Since records have been kept only for the past 114 years, the figure was at best an estimate. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that drought conditions in large parts of the country’s farming land are serious and will get worse during the summer.
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And a bit of a side note 40,000 years ago it was drought that wiped out the megafauna of Australia.