Australia Flood impacts of climate change

Flood damaged towns

Heavy rain that led to floods soak about 30,000 homes in Queensland since last month. The capital of Queensland, Brisbane, totally paralyzed. Until now recorded 19 deaths and thousands of people displaced.

The city has a population of 2 million people into the city past the flooded areas of Queensland. Earlier, heavy rains change the three-quarters of the Queensland region into disaster zones on a scale two times larger than the size of the State of Texas in the United States or the combined size of France and Germany.

Tens of thousands of homes did not have electricity supply. More than 50 areas in the suburbs and the streets flooded after the Brisbane River to overflow. Embankment of the river burst its banks since Tuesday (01/11/2011) being unable to withstand the flood overflow. Elevation or height of water in the river was allegedly going to continue to grow after yesterday reached 5 meters.

For a while the Reuters news agency reported the estimated losses due to flooding at 5 billion U.S. dollars. A BBC correspondent in Brisbane, Phil Mercer, says, the city now have to perform large-scale infrastructure improvements. Even some victims of flooding most likely can not return to their homes.

Flooding also affects the coal industry, both in Australia and international markets, because many coal mine in Queensland affected by stagnant water. The price of coal reported a spike shortly after the floods.

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