The past few months have been terrible for the country of Thailand as their country was swamped with was is reported to be the worst flooding the country has experienced in 50 years. South East Asia was expecting large amounts of rain in 2011 after 2010’s El Nino since La Nina historically always follows afterwards, what we didn’t expect was this huge amount of rainfall lasting a long enough time to engulf an entire country underwater.
I’ve never realized how bad the flooding was till I saw these set of pictures from the Atlantic’s online web site (here and here)
If you are still a doubter of Global Warming, then this should be the proof that you need. One of Global Warming’s end result is changes in weather patterns resulting in harsher weather conditions. Droughts will be longer in areas that are known to have less rainfall, while those that do have will experience a deluge.
What is to be commended is the resilience of the Thai people in trying to overcome this tragedy and get on with their lives.
Category: Global Warming
