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An other update: This one is

trkingmomoe — Mon, 19 May 2014 16:06:54 +0000

In reply to Balkans suffers worst floods in a century

An other update: This one is from The Guardian. They are worried about land minds washing up out of the ground. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/18/serbia-bosnia-flooding-thousands-flee-river-sava?CMP=twt_gu

The worst rainfall since records began in the late 19th century caused landslides that brought more destruction and also prompted a landmine warning.

Bosnia's demining agency said residents around the towns of Doboj, Maglaj and Olovo – which saw fierce fighting during the war in the 1990s – should be particularly wary.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27459184

They are worried about a major power plant. A third of the country is flooded.

Maybe, but the media seems to

trkingmomoe — Mon, 19 May 2014 15:51:31 +0000

In reply to Our media is ignoring it and

Maybe, but the media seems to worry more about their bottom line then covering international news. They don't have the reporters out there like they used to.

Climate changes can cause political unrest. Over all this country seems to know very little about the other side of the world. Syria and Ukraine both had prolong droughts before civil unrest started. I don't see Putin as a villain but someone dealing with a drought and a neighboring country that has a large Russian population that has it roots all the way back to the 12th century with Russia. He has his hands full right now. Ukraine was part of Russia until it was carved off of it after WWI. Lennon showed no interest in the Ukraine territory after the war with the Peace Conference that drew new boarders for countries from the old empires that fell during WWI. There was no Ukraine before that.

Putin will do what he needs to do from a Russian perspective to keep Ukraine from destroying itself in a civil war. Ukraine was the wheat producer for Europe and Russia also depended on Ukraine's agricultural products to feed Russia. Russia had to stop exporting grains in 2010 because of the drought.

USA have done it's political posturing to keep our uniformed population politically somewhat quiet. But we really don't have an understanding about the food problem caused by global warming that is going on in Eurasia right now or the history of Russia. We can't visualize it right now because of the abundance of food this country still has. Though that is now changing in food prices we see at the markets.

Our media is ignoring it and

Elusive Trope — Mon, 19 May 2014 13:19:11 +0000

In reply to Balkans suffers worst floods in a century

Our media is ignoring it and we should be paying more attention to this.

Yet one landslide in Washington State that killed people got plenty of coverage. It is probably the controversial nature of the explanation (climate change) that they are shying away from the coverage.

One more point. Russia has

trkingmomoe — Sun, 18 May 2014 19:58:06 +0000

In reply to Balkans suffers worst floods in a century

One more point. Russia has been suffering with a drought since 2010. The same drought that brought Ukraine to it's knees economically. Ukraine is Europe's bread basket. This helped lead to the instability of that region.

Here is a more technical

trkingmomoe — Sun, 18 May 2014 19:43:48 +0000

In reply to Balkans suffers worst floods in a century

Here is a more technical explanation of what happened with this weather event.

Over the past week, a powerful heat dome high pressure system grew ever-more-entrenched over a region just north of the Caspian Sea. This sprawling high pushed an extreme amplitude ridge pattern north toward Arctic Russia, Scandinavia, and the Kara and Barents Seas. Behind this ridge, toward Central and Eastern Europe, a deep trough dipole pattern developed. A cold and unstable pit in the atmosphere hungry for storms and drawing in energy from the far-north Arctic near Svalbard.

By late Tuesday, the deep pit had fallen down into a cut-off and powerful low pressure system, wringing out the moisture spilling off the heat dome high. By today, that system had turned into a kind of inland hurricane as it dumped as much as four months worth of rainfall in less than 40 hours over broad sections of Bosnia and Serbia.

http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/climate-change-and-a-mangled-jet-stream-bring-historic-deluge-to-bosnia-and-serbia/