Glenside Lions have donated $5000 to the Australian Lions Foundation Floods Appeal.
The ongoing floods in Queensland and New South Wales are on track to be one of Australia’s worst-ever natural disasters. With more extensive and more frequent flooding as climate change intensifies. The Climate Council summarised the scale of the floods and linked the disaster to global warming.
The recent Brisbane “rain bomb” dropped more water on the city than typically falls in London over an entire year, and the volume flowing through the Brisbane River far exceeded the 2010-11 floods.