{"id":280619,"date":"2023-09-26T20:36:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280619"},"modified":"2023-09-26T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:36:51","slug":"climate-change-killed-my-family-or-was-it-the-badly-managed-local-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280619","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClimate Change killed my family\u201d \u2013 or Was it the Badly Managed Local Dams?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kalpa in Himachal Pradesh. By Carlos Adampol Galindo from DF, M\u00e9xico – Kalpa, CC BY-SA 2.0,\u00a0link<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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My heart goes out to Om Prakash, who lost his family in a landslide disaster earlier this year. But it wasn\u2019t climate change which killed his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Climate change killed my family\u2019: Unusual monsoon hammers India\u2019s Himachal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Record-breaking torrential rain leaves a trail of unprecedented devastation in northern India\u2019s Himachal Pradesh state.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Srishti Jaswal<\/a><\/strong>
Published On 25 Sep 202325 Sep 2023<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was raining intensely. Around 4am I heard a deafening crash. Just behind the house, the entire hill collapsed and unleashed a torrent of water and mud that destroyed everything. I survived, but my daughter, wife and my mother died in their sleep,\u201d Prakash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDue to global warming, the monsoon winds now carry more moisture from the sea<\/strong> along with dust and pollution from the plains. Himachal\u2019s bowl-like topography captures those moisture-laden clouds. This leads to excess monsoon rainfall in less periods. The result is flooding,\u201d Shukla explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stopping the flow of rivers by dams in Himachal Pradesh has led to severe riverine disturbances<\/strong>, said Manshi Asher, co-founder of the environmental group Himdhara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the water increases beyond the holding capacity of the dam, they open the floodgates without warning. The impact is visible in the form of landslides and floods<\/strong>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lack of comprehensive data on the environment in the region<\/strong> has also made the situation more dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/9\/25\/climate-change-killed-my-family-unusual-monsoon-hammers-indias-himachal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I wonder what the original draft of that Al Jazeera story looked like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, someone involved in the chain of publication of that Al Jazeera story appears to have tried to tell the real story \u2013 uncontrolled building of dams, poor management of said dams, including abrupt releases of water without warning, and a lack of environmental data, have dramatically worsened the risk of landslides and floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Al Jazeera decided to lead with climate change claims, which given the \u201clack of comprehensive data\u201d, do not seem to be backed by solid evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if CO2 is increasing rainfall, would reducing emissions fix the \u201clandslides and floods\u201d caused by poor water management? Or would focussing on water management issues be more likely to lead to an improved near term outcome?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Al Jazeera had led with the dam management issue, I would have praised their handling of the story, even if it contained alarmist climate content. But instead of telling the story, in my opinion Al Jazeera have done a grave disservice to Om Prakash and others in his situation, by using Prakash\u2019s tragedy as a prop to push their political climate agenda. You have to read the full article to read about the real root cause of local landslide and flood tragedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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