Let’s look at the “bigger picture”, as words fail to adequately convey the scale of what is taking place.
I’ve marked the current floods against NASA’s global temperature anomalies map released on January 14 2011.
This is what conveys the scale of the disaster unfolding across the Southern Hemisphere (click to enlarge):
You’ll note how much “red” appears around the globe. There are temperature anomalies measured against the global average for the 1880-2010 period.
We are drowning and burning.
Of course, to the climate “sceptics” nothing unusual there.
Just a co-incidence.