Operation Sudden Response: Climate Change, 19-25 January 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 19 to 25 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

“People are tired of hearing about climate problems. We need solutions, especially farmers whose families, livestock and livelihoods depend on them.”-Oluyede Ajayi, Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation

 

 

France And Germany Miss EU Climate Plan Deadline

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AUSTRALIA: Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks of apocalypse

BRAZIL:   Brazil Listed Among Climate Change Culprits

CANADA:  Taxpayers funding CAD$20-million climate change think tank

CHINA:  China Suspends Tours Abroad as Xi Jinping Warns of ‘Grave Situation’ from new virus

  the world’s largest greenhouse gas emission emitter

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ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt are moving towards resolving disputes in order to build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

FRANCE: New killer virus from China arrives

GERMANY:  Youth lawsuit challenges newest climate law

 15 personnel heading to operations with U.S. Africa Command (USAfriCom) went through humanitarian aid training at Kelley Barracks/Helenen-Kaserne: “We provide training to units like AfriCom to prepare them for when they might be called to provide humanitarian assistance to help the allies and partners that are within their area of operations as opposed to other military operations which are their main mission.”-Jenny Caruso, Humanitarian Assistance Response Training manager

GREENLAND:  For more proof climate change is a constant, scientists now say the demise of Viking colonies, in the Gregorian 15th Century, was the result of depleted resources and volatile prices, exacerbated by climate change.

Climate change resulting in skyrocketing cod fish:  “The Cod is coming back to Greenland strong.”-Bo Lings, fishing boat owner

HAITI: Scientists warn the next quake will be worse than the 2010 quake

ISRAEL:  UBQ Materials is an Israeli company which has developed a process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute, Germany’s Diamler agrees to test the household waste plastic in new cars. 

IVORY COAST:  How climate change has altered cocoa farming

SPAIN: Storm Gloria claims 12 lives in Spain, four missing

 Sea foam floods streets during deadly storm

TAJIKASTAN: 5.5 quake, 23JAN2020

TURKEY:  NEW earthquake hits already quake-devastated E. Turkish province

At Least 4 Killed, Buildings Collapse in Strong Earthquake

UGANDA:  Reforestation project considered a success, as forest employees live off revenues from Carbon Credits

UNITED KINGDOM:  Tremor shakes homes on Teesside

Taunton’s £6m flood defense plan approved

UNITED STATES:  Is climate change making it easier to get syrup from the rare Pacific Northwest Big Leaf Maple?  Production is on the rise.

As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Government Flood Buyouts Fail 

Residents of Minnesota urged to get flood insurance after warning of massive flood from National Weather Service

Pennsylvania lumber mill shutdown due to three years in a row of flood damage

  It was revealed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a training session on how to deal with a “hypothetical scenario” with Youghiogheny River Lake, in Pennsylvania.

More flooding predicted for Iowa 

Puerto Rico’s Air National Guard’s (PRANG) 156th Mission Support Group are the ‘gateway’ for all U.S. military support entering the territory for quake relief.  The above pic shows PRANG  personnel explaining the Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration process at Muñiz Air National Guard Base.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted ‘door-to-door’ wellness checks in Yauco, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred military personnel supporting quake relief in Puerto Rico

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

Volunteer veterinarians from the Clinica Veterenaria tend to earthquake survivors’ pets, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

 Rescued pets from earthquake-ravaged Puerto Rico end up at East Coast shelters

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In Mississippi, loud booms hear, authorities say it’s not an earthquake

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2.7 quake in Pecos County, Texas, 24JAN2020

Exercise ‘Sudden Response’, involving military units located at Killeen, Austin and Fort Hood, Texas.  The exercise preps military responders for equipment deployment, life-saving operations and web-based command and control.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”