salt a 306 the number of the victims for the floods and the landslides who have met in the last few days South Africa. youngest torrential rains They hit the eastern province KwaZulu Natal and especially the city Durban. thousands that shifteddestroyed roads and bridges and at least 248 schools damaged. The search for missing people in the region where the government has declared them continues state of disaster.
“That’s a catastrophe. A catastrophe of enormous proportions,” declared the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosawho visited the affected areas yesterday, April 13. Ramaphosa added that “this disaster is due to the climate change“And because of that, “we can no longer delay what we need to do to contain it.”
For the Experts | This is the largest storm ever recorded in South Africa. Suffice it to say that in the affected areas more than 450mm rain in 48 hours: nearly half of the rainfall recorded in Durban on average in a year, approximately 1009mm.
project scientist World Weather Mapping (WWA), which analyzes the role of the climate crisis in extreme weather events, found that climate change has increased the likelihood of such events. “Once again we see how the People With less responsibility are for climate change undergo that weight of impact“, Explained on Tuesday, April 12, the climatologist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute ofleading college of London, in relation to the floods. “THAT rich countries they should meet their obligations and to increase the funds needed for adaptation and to compensate for the damage and losses caused by the extreme events, he added.
In the last few hours they were 14 crocodiles were found that were missing. The organization Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife had the warning after the disappearance of reptiles from a flock called “Crocodile Creek‘Northeast of Durban.
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A damaged road on the north coast of Durban, South Africa, Tuesday April 12, 2022. Persistent rains and flooding in South Africa’s KwaZuluNatal province have claimed dozens of lives, according to local officials. (AP Photo/Eileen Anderson)
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