WOW! Check out these BEFORE and AFTER satellite photos of Pakistan...(Dialup Warning)

[Turborama]

(Note the scale line at the bottom is 100km)

BEFORE - Satellite image of Indus, Jhelum & Chenab Rivers 14 Aug 2009 (NASA)


AFTER - Satellite image of Indus, Jhelum & Chenab Rivers 15 Aug 2010 (NASA)

(8 & 9MB versions of the two above can be downloaded http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45200">here)

(50km scale line at the bottom)






BEFORE - This QuickBird satellite image depicts the city of Nowshera, Pakistan, prior to the flood that
left the area devastated


AFTER - This half-meter WorldView-2 image depicts Nowshera, Pakistan in the wake of the massive flood.

If you want to catch up and/or keep up to date with what's going in Pakistan, I'm regularly updating my Journal: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama

[harun]

1. Nice journal, I'll be checking back often.

[Turborama]

5. Thanks!

I'm glad you like it. I've just added a news story from LBN, BTW...

[myrna minx]

2. How awful.

:cry:

[OhioChick]

3. That's just terrible.

:(

[Turborama]

4. Here are some 25KM scale shots I just found....

(the little line is 25KM)

[sabrina 1]

6. Wow, that is awesome and terrifying at the same time.

Thank you for all the work you are doing on this story Turborama ... I have a feeling as time goes by it will be one of the biggest stories of our times ...

[Turborama]

11. Yes, this is truly historic stuff.

Have you seen the latest news story I added to LBN, BTW? Strange goings on with the Ruskies.

[Turborama]

7. And some more....

[Turborama]

12. Better quality versions...

August 1, 2009


July 31, 2010

9 & 7MB versions available here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44991

[Old and In the Way]

8. Wow, I had no idea how bad the flooding was on a geological scale

I know millions of people were affected, but I assumed that they were localized urban centers.....these rivers are incredibly flooded. Another data point for the climate change deniers to deny...

[Turborama]

9. If you're into the geological side of this, the World Food Program have uploaded a massive map

Way too big to add here, it can be download on this site: http://www.wfp.org/maps/pakistan-floods-central-districts-modis-satellite-imagery-multi-temporal-analysis-02-august-2010

[sabrina 1]

16. I think the climate change deniers will soon be in the minority

Between these floods, and the wildfires in Russia, the mudslides in China not to mention the Tsunamis, Hurricanes and earthquakes, it's hard not to realize that something is changing.

If you read the Pentagon's report from several years ago, they predicted almost exactly what is happening in Pakistan right now. The large migration of people displaced by disasters and what effect this would have on the world. They were supposedly preparing for it but I don't think even they expected it to happen this fast.

[Turborama]

18. Have you seen the article in post #14 yet?

He links what's going on to the Pentagon report you mention and provides a link to the most recent one (the "2010 Quadrennial Defense Review"), it's well worth checking out the whole piece: http://cman.cx/blog/index.php/2010/08/16/global-warming-and-global-security

[ihavenobias]

10. # 30. n/t

[ccharles000]

13. wow

horrible

[Turborama]

14. Closer look at Nowshera with a very interesting related article - "Global Warming & Global Security"

Nowshera district

Global Warming and Global Security
Posted by Connor under: Climate Change .

Way back in 2004 the Defense Department came out with a “think piece” (PDF document) warning of dire geopolitical consequences of the effects of climate change. At the time the report’s conclusions, that global climate change was real and most likely caused by humans, was utterly at odds with the Bush administration’s line on the issue and the report was suppressed, gaining only a bit of coverage in the actual liberal media.

Facts being stubborn things, those conclusions could not be ignored forever and as more mature hands took charge, climate change was officially included as a security threat in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review. The QDR concludes that changing weather patterns “may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.”

Full article with embedded links: http://cman.cx/blog/index.php/2010/08/16/global-warming-and-global-security/

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Wow! K&R and bookmarking!

Thanks for all the information you've posted on this horrible situation. Why isn't this leading the news instead of the hysteria over building what isn't a mosque on what isn't Ground Zero? :(

[Turborama]

17. Thank you for your k&R and response, my friend

:hi:

It's been headline news all over the rest of the world since it began and AC360 for the 1st time had a 2 minute thing on it only 2 days ago, it just shows how shallow and introverted America's MSM are.

BTW check out this graphic which gives an overview of the current situation:



Originally found in the original AP article about the UN holding an emergency meeting later today that I posted recently in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4509461

[Rhiannon12866]

21. You're more than welcome...

And thanks for the additional information. We can at least publicize this on DU. ;( :hi:

[Turborama]

24. It's a tough job

But someone has to do it, otherwise DU would be devoid of any information on it.

Have you had a chance to see this yet?

It's very powerful: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8970355&mesg_id=8978133

:hi:

[ChromeFoundry]

19. K&R n/t

[OhioChick]

20. Kick

:kick:

[Octafish]

22. Heartbreaking.

Thank you for the heads-up, Turborama. Knowing there are many, many good people suffering is the first step.

[Turborama]

23. Adding link to NASA's incredible new interactive graphic for context

Does anyone know how to get a standalone version?


Drag the slider up in this interactive photograph to see Pakistan's Indus River as it appeared on Aug. 9, 2009. Pull the slider down to see the flooded region on Aug. 12, 2010, a year later. (NASA).
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/08/19/pakistan-flooding-homeless.html#ixzz0x5W7ChT3

[Turborama]

25. New Map & article from NYT

Rush of Floodwaters (700,000 cubic feet per second) Threatens Southern Pakistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/world/asia/21pstan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4512102