Novak Djokovic makes emotional plea for coverage of floods in Serbia

More events of severe flooding were predicted decades ago because of global warming. Warmer air holds more moisture, warmer water evaporates faster. When it eventually meets up with cooler air, the result is more precipitation. This is has been happening around the world.

These events, and others exacerbated by global warming, except for those in the U.S., have been ignored by the MSM, because they the fossil fuel executives who own them, pay for big ads, or make big corporate donations, don't want the public to be aware of how global warming is already affecting the world. I do credit NPR for covering it.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/may/17/novak-djokovic-coverage-floods-serbia

Kevin Mitchell in Rome,theguardian.com
Saturday 17 May 2014

Novak Djokovic, Serbia's most prominent athlete, on Saturday implored the media to raise awareness of the floods that have devastated his country, accusing CNN and the BBC of virtually ignoring what he described as a "total catastrophe of biblical proportions".

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He said he had been distracted during the tournament about events at home, especially near his native Belgrade, where floods have taken several lives and forced the evacuation of whole cities.

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"There have not been floods like this in the existence of our people. It is a total catastrophe of biblical proportions. I don't really know how to describe it. Half the country is in danger of not having any electricity, there is total immobilisation, evacuations – and we're talking about whole cities, not small villages.

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"I see that on CNN, the BBC and other big networks there is a lot about the miners in Turkey, and so forth. This is another disaster, but there is no broadcast from Serbia and Bosnia, nothing about the biggest floods that we have ever seen, that maybe Europe has ever seen. This is incredible.

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