To J. T. Wheeler
Was your comment sarcasm? As it is the only explanation I can think of for such a silly comment.
Are you a U.F.O expert? the evidence for global warming is in this article maybe you should stop being so arrogant and read it again. look at who comments, the director-general of the Beijing Climate Centre and Ewa Eriksson, the acting regional head of the red cross in Beijing. Althought the Times does not specify who the "experts" are, there is a much stronger arguement for global warming than aliens perhaps you should do some research into both U.F.O's and global warming too!!

Dave Winchester, London, England

Chinese government is setting space station now.How stupid!

Donald, Sheffield, UK

Sir,
" Chinese storms hit 200 million.
What has happened to the media coverage in this Country?
The Times manages to cover this disaster in detail, the BBC provided a single item, many papers nothing.
But BB or Hilary's cleavage, now they're important!
600 million of the World's most powerful nation? Well that's boring!
Martin, Crawley, England "

The "independent" global corporate media creates the "news" and ascribes its own level of importance to what is considered newsworthy & important.
How often do we notice the subtle bias in our own words? I suppose it is just a case of 1 Englishman = 10 Americans = 100 Europeans = 1000 Asians = 10,000 Africans...

SC, London, United Kingdom

These floods are described as the wost China has suffered in a decade. So was it also "global warming" when the storms struck a decade ago?

Aaron, Washington DC, USA

What is the government in China doing to help the people that are now desperately in need? With little food and no clean water, there will be a high risk of diseases spreading and more people will die.

Do something to help the people in your country!
Do something to help the rest of the people in the world....... Cut your CARBON EMISSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matt, Dubai, U.A.E

Okay, "they" say it's global warming tearing up China with storms. I say it's UFO's! Now, prove me wrong.

J. T. Wheeler, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Your news coverage of the ongoing flood in China is very much appreciated. The local media fails to give us a full picture of this devastating disaster.

Robert Wang, Beijing, China

there's no way to know if this, or the floods in england, are individually caused by man-made climate change. however we do know that these kind of events will become more frequent if the world warms, that warming is happening and that the vast majority of the scientists agree that we are to blame so we in the west should take the lead in using our energy more carefully.

jth, London, UK

China is still a developing country, although it has made great achievements in all aspects since it carried out open-up policy in 1978. I have to admit that currently our country faces many serious problems, such as how to be harmonious with nature, due to overly pursuing economic profits without full considerations. But I believe that under the correct guidance of Communist Party of China, our country will overcome all the difficulties.

lonely , GuangZhong , China

china is still a developing country

lonely , GuangZhong , China

China is still a developing country, although it has made great achievements in all aspects since it carried out open-up policy in 1978. I have to admit that currently our country faces many serious problems, such as how to be harmonious with nature, due to overly pursuing economic profits without full considerations. But I believe that under the correct guidance of Communist Party of China, our country will overcome all the difficulties.

lonely , GuangZhong , China

To be honest, as a matter of fact, I know the Chinese government sunk billions into flood defence each year. But China is such a large country with extreme climates. There are floods and
droughts every year, just some years it's more serious than others. Apart from climate changes, other factor which might contribute to this kind of extreme weather is definitely due to the economic developments which in one way or anther resulted in deforestation and the destroy of the natural balance of the environment and caused the landslides etc...It's a huge challenge facing the Chinese people to get the right balance between economic developments and the protection of nature.

CK, London,

What is the government in China doing to help the poor and homeless people now???? I guess nothing??? With the spread of diseases many more people will die.
My message to the chinese government:
Do something to help your people!! and
Do something to help the rest of the people in the world........ cut your CARBON EMISSIONS!!!!!

Matt, Dubai, U.A.E

Chinese storms hit 200 million.

What has happened to the media coverage in this Country?

The Times manages to cover this disaster in detail, the BBC provided a single item, many papers nothing.

But BB or Hilary's cleavage, now they're important!

600 million of the World's most powerful nation? Well that's boring!

Martin, Crawley, England

The science of global warming is questionable. Deforestation of much of China could be cause also.

MP, C,

The Three Gorges Dam, however, is not on the Yellow River. Instead, it is on the Yangtze River.
The disasters caused by floods and droughts anuually affect China severely. Every year, people lose their homes and relatives, resulting in social and economic problems. The natural hazards imfluece lower-class people firstly and dramatically, while the riches are hardly attacked by these disasters, to some extent, they benefit from them. Unfortunately, China, with a majority population of farming community, is the case.

Jesson Ren , Shanghai, China PR

Dear Sir,

People in the West should, and no doubt will respond to appeals for humanitarian aid for the neglected and suffering amongst China's rural communities. But should not the government in Beijing be doing more to look after its own people?

Yours sincerely

N Noble, South West, China