Canada Calgary Aerial View + Bob Sanford speaks Floods(Climate) June 22, 2013
Live stream video editing by http://ClimateState.com
The floods followed some 36 hours of unusually heavy rainfall - some communities received six months of their normal rainfall in under two days. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/22/canada-floods-idUSL2N0EY07H20130622
Aerial view footage from CTV June 22 2013, via live stream excerpts
http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?binId=1.810401
Excerpts from podcast interview with Bob Sanford and host Anna Maria Tremonti from the The Current, episode "Severe flooding in southern Alberta" from June 21, 2013
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2013/06/21/severe-flooding-in-southern-alberta/
Robert Sandford is the EPCOR Chair in support of the United Nations "Water for Life" Decade of Action initiative in Canada. We support his efforts as he speaks in plain language to policy makers, explaining how his work links research and analysis to public policy ideas that help protect water supplies and reduce water consumption.
http://corp.epcor.com/News/2013/Pages/mar-13-bob-sanford-speaking-dates.aspx
Rain will get more extreme thanks to global warming, NASA
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/4/4298250/rain-will-more-extreme-global-warming-study
Happening now: Incredible Flood Damage Across Northern India
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/06/incredible-flood-damage-across-northern-india/5979/
The Indian floods and climate change:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Earth-sciences-secretary-blames-Uttarakhand-rains-on-climate-change/articleshow/20709643.cms
May 2013 Earth’s 3rd Warmest May; Central European Floods Cost $22 Billion
http://climatestate.com/magazine/2013/06/may-2013-earths-3rd-warmest-may-central-european-floods-cost-22-billion/
"It’s not the right question to ask if this storm or that storm is due to global warming, or is it natural variability. Nowadays, there’s always an element of both." - Kevin Trenberth
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