Seth Borenstein in the Northwest Herald via the AssociatedPress: Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves
that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly
weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new
report issued Wednesday.
The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly
populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the
globe – from Mumbai to Miami – is immune. The document by a Nobel Prize-winning
panel of climate scientists forecasts stronger tropical cyclones and more
frequent heat waves, deluges and droughts.
The 594-page report blames the scale of recent and future
disasters on a combination of man-made climate change, population shifts and
poverty. In the past, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, founded in
1988 by the United Nations, has focused on the slow inexorable rise of
temperatures and oceans as part of global warming. This report by the panel is
the first to look at the less common but far more noticeable extreme weather
changes, which lately have been costing on average about $80 billion a year in
damage.
“We mostly experience weather and climate through the
extreme,” said one of the report’s top editors, Chris Field, an ecologist with
the Carnegie Institution of Washington. “That’s where we have the losses.
That’s where we have the insurance payments. That’s where things have the
potential to fall apart.
“There are lots of places that are already marginal for one
reason or another,” Field said. But it’s not just poor areas: “There is
disaster risk almost everywhere.”
An aerial shot of downtown Miami, shot by Towpilot, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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Mumbai is the biggest one in the world for Disaster because of its only one reason its covered with sea and there after its too congested, there is no more chance to the Mumbai people to save their lives.
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