(((This is a classic example of what's known in the Greenhouse-pundit trade as a "Wexelblat Disaster.")))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wexelblat_disaster
181 feared dead in flooded coal mines in China-China-World-The Times of India.
181 feared dead in flooded coal mines in China19 Aug 2007, 0906 hrs IST,APSMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
China: Distraught relatives protested and demanded answers Sunday nearly two days after a collapsed dike in eastern China flooded two coal mines, leaving 181
workers missing and feared dead.The Huayuan Mining Co.mine flooded on Friday afternoon when the Wen river burst a dike, sending water pouring into a shaft and trapping 172 miners, Xinhua and state television said.
Nine more miners were trapped when water poured into the nearby Minggong Coal Mine on Friday evening, according to Xinhua. (...)
China's coal mines are the world's deadliest, (((especially to non-Chinese, who have to share the same sky with Chinese smokestacks))) with thousands of fatalities a year in fires, floods and other disasters. Many are blamed on managers who disregard safety rules.
The government has promised for years to improve mine safety, but China depends on coal for most of itselectric power, and the country's economic boom has created voracious demand. Production has more than doubled since 2000.
Storms that swept through the region on Friday and Saturday dumped 232 millimeters (9.13 inches) of rain, Xinhua said.
(((There's not a coal mine in the world that could avert nine inches of sudden Greenhouse rain. Those miners were digging their own graves.)))
