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Bayard

(22,288 posts) Thu May 9, 2024, 10:31 PM May 9

Brazil battles nature as 'largest ever' floods submerge whole cities

Horse stuck on roof after flooding hits southern Brazil

Brazil battles nature as ‘largest ever’ floods submerge whole cities

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Brazil battles nature as 'largest ever' floods submerge whole cities (Original Post) Bayard May 9 OP

Climate change is apocalyptic... Hekate May 9 #1

Twice as big as the effects of Katrina. ancianita May 9 #2

How much did deforestation exacerbate this? 3Hotdogs May 10 #3

grassland enid602 May 10 #4

Good thing the "Earl Companies"... orwell May 10 #5

Scary. Hard to think what things will be like in another 10 years. Fla Dem May 10 #6

Wait....global climate change is a hoax, right? MineralMan May 10 #7

Hekate

(91,135 posts)

1. Climate change is apocalyptic...

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Thu May 9, 2024, 10:51 PM

May 9

And is here.

I’m so sorry, grandkids. We actually tried to do the right things, but were outvoted by Exxon…

ancianita

(36,258 posts)

2. Twice as big as the effects of Katrina.

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Thu May 9, 2024, 11:14 PM

May 9

3Hotdogs

(12,502 posts)

3. How much did deforestation exacerbate this?

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2024, 12:03 AM

May 10

enid602

(8,688 posts)

4. grassland

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #3)

Fri May 10, 2024, 12:31 AM

May 10

Rio Grande do Sul is in the Pampa biome (Brazilian Pampa), which is grassland. Trees are not native to this area.

orwell

(7,782 posts)

5. Good thing the "Earl Companies"...

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2024, 01:17 AM

May 10

...can give the "Orange Turd" a billion (or so) to make all this cornfounded Global Climate Hoax just disappear so Amuuuuricans can get back to "rollin' coal" and gettin' Hummers!

Fake Flood News!

Fla Dem

(23,945 posts)

6. Scary. Hard to think what things will be like in another 10 years.

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2024, 09:57 AM

May 10

MineralMan

(146,364 posts)

7. Wait....global climate change is a hoax, right?

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2024, 10:15 AM

May 10

That's what the GOOPers say, anyhow...

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