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    Sick of El Niño ?

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    You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Warns NASA

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/...ng-yet-n487941


    The El Niño currently wreaking havoc around the world is forecast to only worsen in 2016 — and NASA experts fear it could get as bad as the most destructive El Niño ever.

    A new satellite image of the weather system "bears a striking resemblance to one from December 1997" — the worst El Niño on record — which was blamed forextreme weather, including record rainfall in California and Peru, heat waves across Australia, and fires in Indonesia. The severe conditions resulted in an estimated 23,000 deaths in 1997 and 1998.

    This year's El Niño has already caused wild conditions for much of the United States.: It contributed to the reasons why many Americans experienced a balmy Christmas Eve, with temperature peaking in the 70s in places along the East Coast, and is responsible for deadly storms and near-record flooding in the South and Midwest.


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    Freak storm pushes North Pole 50 degrees above normal to melting point

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    Weather happens.

    We've had centuries of relatively calm weather and it ain't gonna last forever.

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    A seven year cycle I believe?
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    Strong El Nino predicted this year...

    China braces for ‘severe’ flooding on Yangtze
    Sun, Apr 03, 2016 - Three GORGES DAM: Predictions for a strong El Nino this year are likely to test the US$59 billion damming of the Yangtze River, designed to control the river’s water levels
    Severe floods are expected on China’s Yangtze River this year due to a strong El Nino weather pattern, state media said, raising the risk of deaths and damage to property and crops along the country’s longest waterway. The El Nino conditions are the strongest since records collection began in 1951 and resemble a 1998 weather pattern that flooded the river and killed thousands, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday, citing the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources’ vice minister Liu Ning. “Precipitation in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the river is forecast to be as much as 80 percent more than normal from May to August,” Xinhua said.

    Some Yangtze tributaries had already begun flooding and the flood control and drought relief situation was “extremely severe,” Liu said, according to the news agency. Provinces and cities along the river needed to make contingency plans, Xinhua cited Hubei Province Governor Wang Guosheng as saying. China has frequently been devastated by natural disasters, particularly by floods and earthquakes that have claimed millions of lives over the centuries.

    Flooding, an annual problem, has been exacerbated by urban sprawl and poor drainage infrastructure in many cities. Xinhua said 1,320 people died in the 1998 floods, though estimates vary and some put the death toll at more than 4,000. Floods could be a test of the water management capabilities of the controversial US$59 billion Three Gorges Dam, which was finished in 2012. Along with power generation and navigation, the dam was designed for controlling the Yangtze’s water levels.

    The ongoing El Nino, a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, has been linked to serious crop damage, forest fires and flash flood and drought around the world. Experts have warned that changing global climate leading to extreme weather is likely to have an impact on the world’s most important commodity crops — maize, soybean, wheat and rice. Most of the global production of these four crops comes from a small number of countries, such as China.

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    El Nino' wildfire still burning in Indonesian rainforest...

    Smoke from Indonesian fires hits 'unhealthy' level in Singapore
    Fri Aug 26, 2016 - Air pollution in Singapore rose to the "unhealthy" level on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said.
    Every dry season, smoke from fires set to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations in Indonesia clouds the skies over much of the region, raising concern about public health and worrying tourist operators and airlines. The 24-hour Pollution Standards Index (PSI), which Singapore's NEA uses as a benchmark, rose as high as 105 in the afternoon. A level above 100 is considered "unhealthy". The NEA said it planned a "daily haze advisory" as "a burning smell and slight haze were experienced over many areas" in Singapore. Indonesia has been criticized by its northern neighbors and green groups for failing to end the annual fires, which were estimated to cost Southeast Asia's largest economy $16 billion in 2015, and left more than half a million Indonesians suffering from respiratory ailments.


    A wildfire is seen from a Ministry of Environment and Forestry helicopter over Kubu Raya, near Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Indonesian President Joko Widodo has increased government efforts to tackle the haze, with police doubling numbers of fire-related arrests this year. "Forest and land fires in the Riau area are increasing," Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Nugroho said in a statement on Friday, referring to aerial surveillance of 67 hotspots and smoke from the area drifting eastward over Singapore. "The smoke billowing from the hotspot locations is quite dense," Nugroho said, adding that 7,200 personnel and several aircraft had been deployed to stop the Riau fires. Pollution levels in neighboring Malaysia were normal on Friday. Singapore has pushed Indonesia for information on companies suspected of causing pollution, some of which are listed on Singapore's stock exchange.


    A helicopter from the Indonesian National Disaster Management agency (BNPB) drops water on a fire in Ogan Ilir, near Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia

    A forest campaigner for the environmental group Greenpeace Indonesia, Yuyun Indradi, said the government was struggling to enforce laws to prevent the drainage of peatland for plantations and the setting of fires to clear land. "It has become a challenge for the government to enforce accountability among concession holders, to enforce its directives on blocking canals, and push companies to take part in efforts to restore peatland and prevent fires," Indradi said. "Now is the time for the government to answer this challenge. It is in the law." Greenpeace said, according to its satellite information, there were 138 fires across Indonesia on Friday.

    http://in.reuters.com/article/us-ind...-idINKCN1110K2

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    Slash-and-burn farming is a sin, says Indonesia's highest Islamic authority...

    Forest-burning is a sin, says Indonesian fatwa
    Wed, 14 Sep 2016 - Indonesia's highest Islamic authority says it is a sin for people to set fire to forests to clear the land for growing crops.
    Illegal slash-and-burn farming has devastated large areas of Indonesia and causes air pollution which affects countries around the region. Indonesia has repeatedly been accused of not doing enough to stop it.


    Firefighters tackle a forest fire in Riau province, Indonesia

    Government officials said they hoped the moral impact of the fatwa would help reinforce laws against it. At a joint conference in Jakarta, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and the Indonesian environment ministry said they were in talks about how to enforce it.

    Hayu Prabowo, head of environmental protection at MUI, said most of the forest burning was done by companies, but declaring it haram - forbidden by Islamic law - should make the public feel empowered to stand up to them. "This fatwa will make religious leaders and the general public who in the past didn't care, care and start to take responsibility to end forest burning in their area," he said.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37358253

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    Forest burning may have led to 100,000 premature deaths...

    Indonesia haze may have led to 100,000 premature deaths, says report
    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 - Haze caused by deliberately started forest fires in Indonesia may have led to 100,000 premature deaths, according to new US research.
    More than 90% were in Indonesia itself, with the rest in Malaysia and Singapore, concluded the study by Harvard and Columbia universities. The pollution occurs each year, and is caused by the burning of forests and peat lands to clear them for crops. The smoke drifts across South East Asia. In 2015 it lasted several months. Indonesia has repeatedly been accused of not doing enough to tackle the problem, but says it has stepped up efforts to prevent the fires being started. The study, to be published in Environmental Research Letters, used satellite data and computer modelling of health effects to determine the statistical probability of early deaths.


    A MI-17 helicopter run by the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency conducting water-bombs on a fire spot in Ogan Komering Ilir area in South Sumatra province

    It said the risk ranged from 26,300 to 174,300 deaths, with 100,300 as the average. It looked only at the health impact on adults, despite widespread reports of infant deaths, and only at the effects of PM2.5, the fine particulate matter carried by the smog which can get into lungs. Indonesia's official death toll from last year's burning - the worst since 1997 - is 19, which includes fire fighters. But its disaster management agency has said more than 43 million Indonesians were exposed to the smoke and that half a million suffered acute respiratory infections, in addition to the economic damage caused.

    Academics and environmentalists have said that, even with caveats, the conclusions from the new research were a "wake-up call". "If nothing changes, this killer haze will carry on taking a terrible toll, year after year," Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner Yuyun Indradi told AFP. "Failure to act immediately to stem the loss of life would be a crime." This year, the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) reports that, after a spike in early September, the number of "hotspots", indicating major fires seen by weather satellites, has fallen to below 20. Far fewer than last year.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37404515

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