China’s summer of climate destruction
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
More hysteria from the BBC:
China’s summer this year has seen both extreme heat and devastating floods.
And the flooding this time around has struck areas where such weather has been unheard of, with scientists – blaming climate change – warning that the worst is yet to come.
"I’ve never seen a flood here in my whole life," says 38-year-old Zhang Junhua, standing next to a vast patch of rice, now completely useless. "We just didn’t expect it."
His family and friends are safe, he says, because they were given plenty of warning to get to higher ground, but everyone in his village now has some tough months ahead.
What’s more, the devastation in north-east China’s Heilongjiang Province has had a major impact on food supplies for the whole country.
This month, 40% of the area’s famous Wuchang rice crop has been wiped out, visibly flattened by the volume and speed of the water. Places which should appear lush and green are today brown and dead.
"The fields where we planted our crops were all submerged. We can’t plant again this year," says another farmer, Zhao Lijuan, as she smiles and tries to be philosophical about the impact on her community.
"The losses are incalculable. We have tens of thousands of acres of rice fields here," the 56-year-old says, adding: "When I saw the water come here, I cried. It laid waste to everything and I am scared the typhoons will be back."
At least 81 people have been killed in the recent floods, including some trying to rescue others.
But the economic pain has been much wider, in a country already struggling to recover following three years of strict coronavirus control measures.
And, if the government wants to measure the immediate cost of not addressing climate change urgently, it need look no further than its own statistics.
In a little over a decade, the number of floods being recorded in the country has increased tenfold.
In the summer of 2011, there were six to eight monthly floods listed in China. Last year, more than 130 were recorded in July and 82 in August.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66616699
If you think this all sounds like a load of nonsense, you are probably right.
As the BBC themselves go on to admit:
According to Dr Zhao Li from Greenpeace East Asia, the increase in flood numbers can be partially explained by China developing better systems to monitor and record flood data.
Forget about the protestations about how climate change might still be a factor, the BBC is acting fraudulently by quoting those flood statistics, which they know to be false.
And the claim that flooding this time around has struck areas where such weather has been unheard?
Well, the BBC also go on to note at the end of the article (which most people won’t bother to read):
Officials in China tried to ease the impact of recent floods by using a system of dams of waterways to change their direction. The problem is that the water has to go somewhere, and it was Zhuozhou in Hebei Province which took the hit.
These are tough choices but, in the end, it becomes a government decision over who must suffer for the greater good.
In other those “unprecedented floods” were not caused by climate change, but by a deliberate decision to divert the flood waters from elsewhere.
You would of course be entitled to think all of these floods and other extreme weather has affected China’s agriculture in recent years.
The reality is quite the opposite:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Careful scrutiny and publication of the statistical validity of the statements is needed before we could accept these worries as different from/worse than the historic record.
Its also ‘China bashing’ season after the BRICS meeting. Someone, presumably in the US State Dept has sent out the ‘narrative’ which now must be used for every comment on China. Soon to be extended to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UEA, Argentina, Ethiopia. Iran was already getting it. Brazil won’t escape, Lula has suddenly switched from being a leftie darling to a dangerous despot.
China is Australia’s largest trading partner. With the US China bashing due to fear of Chinese competition, China would and could retaliate by reducing trade with Australia, the US’ loyal friend and ally.
I can’t see how reporting on weather in China is China-bashing. However, what is not mentioned in the article is that the people in the areas flooded to save Beijing were not warned that the flood water was being directed their way which in turn caused unnecessary deaths.
They’re blaming the Chinese government for allowing CO2 emissions to have risen year on year. At least this makes a change from pretending that the UK, US and Europe cutting emissions without the rest of the world doing the same will solve “global boiling”, or promoting China as a world leader when it comes to installing renewable energy.
Unlikely.
China – Australia trade is mostly one way, Australia supplies China with iron ore and natural gas, China supplies services.
And currently, China’s economy is too fragile to indulge in trade wars with anyone.
Related –
Tropical storm Idalia is forecast to become a major hurricane and hit the Florida Gulf coast.
Already, climate sillyasses are talking about the extra hot Gulf water this year, setting up labeling Idalia destruction as caused by “climate change.” Gulf waters are hot enough to support major hurricanes every year. “Hotter” is irrelevant, except to climate scientists and Leftist media.
whilst we know that this is all BBC Bullsh*t, and WE also know that CO2 output is irrelevant in discussing “climate emergencies” and severe weather, it is surprising that the BBC do not make any connection between these floods and China opening 2 coal fired power stations every week. Or maybe it isnt, as they only want to blame floods all over the world on me driving my small petrol car to the car boot sale this morning
The increase in crop yield graph looks amazingly like the “Increase in CO2 is going to kill us all” graph….. strange that……..
As usual for the scaremongering elite, there was little mention of the Paris plan to solve and mitigate this “dangerous” situation. Just more “act soon”, whatever that means.
It means keep pretending CO2 is a climate problem needing nonexistent solutions.
There are people who make a good living from buying on the future’s market , predicting shortages (high price) or glut (low price) for various agricultural products . Their actions are probably based on more rational data than the hysteria from the BBC and other media. Looking at one site
https://ahdb.org.uk/cereals-oilseeds/futures-prices
forward prices for many products into next year and beyond look remarkably stable , even or especially in China . How can this be if the planet is “boiling”.
Surely the ‘boiling planet’ ploy is just what is needed to raise prices for profit on the future’s market so why hasn’t this happened?
Floods and droughts are nothing new in China. Even in that area of Northern China
https://disasterhistory.org/north-china-famine-1920-21
The mighty Yellow River, the ‘mother river’ of Chinese civilisation, has also been known as the ‘River of Disaster’ and ‘China’s sorrow’ because of the devastating floods it has wrought in its basin from pre-history to the last century. While much of the blame has been put on the upstream Loess Plateau, a new study has noted that the Chinese practice of building embankments is also to blame.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/water/the-yellow-river-has-been-known-as-china-s-sorrow-now-we-know-who-was-responsible-87925
On August 18, 1931, the Yangtze River in China peaked during a flood that killed 3.7 million people directly and indirectly over the next several months. Perhaps the worst natural disaster of the 20th century.
A few years back, there were floods in the UK (IIRC it was Somerset, but not sure) and the BBC broadcast an interview with an inhabitant who said “I’ve never seen floods like this in my life”. He was 13….
ROTFLMAO Just shows how low the BBC go to broadcast bullshit. What if there are natural cycles that are longer than the human lifespan?
On the Today programme Saturday, it was reported that three sharks “unusual to these shores” were washed up on UK beaches. Michal Hussein prompted a suitable reply by asking the interviewee, after she had made a lengthy statement, “Could this be the result of Climate Change?” which had not been mentioned. Obviously Ms Hussein knew that the next News item, immediately following, was about the floods in China, blamed by the reporter on Climate Change.