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The death toll from record-breaking floods in western Japan has reached at least 176 as rescue workers searched for dozens missing in hardest-hit Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures.
A new evacuation was ordered Tuesday for the town of Fuchu, after the Enoki River overflowed the previous day, the newspaper said.
Tens of thousands of rescue and recovery workers were digging through the debris as the search entered its fifth day, The Associated Press reports.
[The fossil fuel executives knew that the continued use of their product would cause such tragedies. They response was to suppress their own research, fund denialism among the public, and pay off politicians, to enable them to get even richer than they already were. They are mass murderers, as are those politicians.]
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/11/627924484/dozens-still-missing-in-japan-floods-as-death-toll-reaches-176


Temperatures shot up over 110 degrees in Southern California on Friday, obliterating all kinds of long-standing heat records, and the lights went out for tens of thousands of customers. Californians were powerless, without air conditioning, in the hottest weather many had ever experienced.
Climate scientists have known this was coming, and it may only be the beginning.
“We studied this a long time ago . . . now our projections are becoming reality,” tweeted Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/09/record-heat-put-thousands-of-californians-in-the-dark-friday-scientists-predicted-this-from-climate-change/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.331cde931518

tags: extreme weather, severe weather