The international media speculated that the flood was a manifestation of the greenhouse effect. Few TV viewers realized that the previous year s flood had been almost as bad.
Flooding is a fact of life in Bangladesh.
There s no statistical evidence that flood levels have increased over the past 100 years. His argument shatters another popular explanation - that the floods are caused by rural people cutting down trees upstream. Without trees, soil is eroded during the monsoon rains - or so the theory goes. The mountains are left naked and the plains below are flooded. His study of local agriculture reveals very little reduction in forest cover in the past 50 years.