By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
The climate pornos are already out celebrating the latest floods in China:
https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1417572482786201601
Maybe he has forgotten Typhoon Nina in 1975, which also hit Henan Province and left 229,000 dead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nina_(1975)
In contrast to 609mm of rain, Nina dropped 1631mm in one day, including 830mm in just six hours.
Just four years before Nina, another disastrous flood killed an estimated 100,000 in nearby North Vietnam:
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1971/8/1/red-river-delta-flood-of-1971
If these events happened today, there would be immediate calls for world socialism.
FOOTNOTE
Apparently Eric cannot even get his facts right, as the actual rainfall was 617mm over three days:
Eric Holthaus says he is a meteorologist and climate journalist. It seems he is not a very good one!
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July 21, 2021 at 09:06AM
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