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Disaster Calendar 2011 – September 2
[September 2, 2011] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,657 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History
- USA. Bowing to big business, the white House has withdrawn the draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
- The draft had proposed to limit ground-level ozone to between 60 and 70 parts per billion over eight hours [The previous standard was 75 parts per billion set by the Bush administration in 2008.]
- “The Obama administration is caving to big polluters at the expense of protecting the air we breathe. This is a huge win for corporate polluters and a huge loss for public health,” said Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters.
- “It’s good to see the administration recognizing the need to balance environmental rules with the potential impact on consumers and jobs,” said Melissa McHenry, a spokeswoman with American Electric Power.
- “We would hope that same consideration should be given to other rules that the EPA is moving forward with,” she added.
- “Smog kills more people than car crashes in the most heavily-polluted areas of the country: There were 2,521 vehicular deaths in the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast Air Basin in 2006, compared to 3,812 deaths attributed to respiratory illness caused by particulate pollution, according to a study by researchers at Cal State Fullerton.” Source
Other Disasters
- Sudan. Sudan has declared a state of emergency in the state of Blue Nile following a third outbreak of fighting on the country’s border states with South Sudan, reports said.
- Since South Sudan’s declaration of independence in July, at least a quarter of a million people have fled their homes, most of them from the South Kordofan state (population: ~ 1.2 million).
- Connecticut River Valley. Flooding triggered by Tropical Storm Irene have submerged farmland in the Connecticut River Valley, destroying crops both in Connecticut and Massachusetts and washing away topsoil, a report said.
- Iowa, USA. The town of Hamburg in southwest Iowa (pop: 1,100) may soon become a ghost town as many of its residents may leave because of chronic flooding. The summer-long flooding along the Missouri River have limited access to the town since June, a report said.
- Southern California, USA. Authorities have ordered the residents of 1,500 homes to evacuate after a wildfire engulfed a large section of I-15, the main interstate between SoCal and Las Vegas, AP reported.
- The blaze began about1 pm Friday and consumed 500 acres in two hours, the report said.
- Georgia, USA. Governor of Georgia has requested a disaster designation for 157 of Georgia’s 159 counties because of the ongoing drought and exceptional heat conditions that have plagued the state since April, a report said.
- “Earlier this summer, Vilsack [USDA] had granted a disaster designation for 22 counties and an additional 26 counties were declared contiguous disaster areas due to drought and heat conditions. Those counties were all in the southern portion of the state and reflected crop losses early in the year as a result of drought conditions.”
- Shikoku Island, Japan. Typhoon Talas, the 12th of the season, made landfall on Shikoku Island, killing at least one person with half dozen others missing, and injuring dozens of others, a report said.
- Some 3,200 others were forced to evacuate in 16 prefectures in western to central Japan.
- Typhoon Talas also disrupted air and rail traffic in western Japan, with hundreds of domestic and international flights cancelled.
- Mudslides caused by torrential rains blocked roads, isolating hundreds of people in Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, on Shikoku.
- A record 1,150 millimeters of rain fell in 72 hours over a village in Nara Prefecture.
- Rain records for at least 4 other prefectures in western Japan have also been broken, reports said.
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