Posted on 11/23/2015 9:42:45 AM PST by PROCON
GENEVA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Weather-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report said on Monday.
While the report authors could not pin the increase wholly on climate change, they did say that the upward trend was likely to continue as extreme weather events increased.
Since 1995, weather disasters have killed 606,000 people, left 4.1 billion injured, homeless or in need of aid, and accounted for 90 percent of all disasters, it said.
A recent peak year was 2002, when drought in India hit 200 million and a sandstorm in China affected 100 million. But the standout mega-disaster was Cyclone Nargis, which killed 138,000 in Myanmar in 2008.
While geophysical causes such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis often grab the headlines, they only make up one in 10 of the disasters trawled from a database defined by the impact.
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"While scientists cannot calculate what percentage of this rise is due to climate change, predictions of more extreme weather in future almost certainly mean that we will witness a continued upward trend in weather-related disasters in the decades ahead," the report said.
Oh noes, now it's daily Weather that's going to kill us.
Ban Attack Weather Now!!
Weather related disasters have happened every day since the beginning.
I don’t need a MARXIST organization feeding me propaganda to further their global warming bullshit agenda.
Whomever believes this load of crap needs their heads examined!!
Yup, we need a well financed gubmint program to control this man-made disaster.
My girlfriend got rain on her new shoes “ It is a disaster” she declared.
Damn, when they are right they are right.
This is a translation of hieroglyphs found in Pharaoh's tomb referring to the 10 plagues while trying to blame Moses for them.
or maybe....the Mafia? I hear theyre ready to take out ISIL...
will the taxpayer be paying the enforcement bill??
” But the standout mega-disaster was Cyclone Nargis, which killed 138,000 in Myanmar in 2008.”
I’m game. OK UN. How do you plan on fixing this? I think their answer would be entertaining.
How? The usual Marxist remedy to a non-existent problem.
Throw your and my tax dollars at it.
Over half the population of the Earth? Either Bangladesh got counted every year, or they are counting as a disaster when my tree was blown down and I was without electricity for a day.
This isn’t even newsworthy. I think I learned this in about 7th grade.
If it does not stop soon, we should all start paying taxes to the UN.
the UN will simply demand that we stop microaggressing gaia...
With great pain and suffering, I managed to drink it.
D@mn you global warming! D@mn YOU!! :Shakes empty beer at the sky:
I am suffering from the heaviest drizzle of the week. If we all pull together and pay more taxes, the weather will be perfect and there will be no more trouble. Did I mention that I am a delusional? Off to Paris. ...
I call bullshit on this. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been outside in foul weather working to fix things when my girls were all sitting inside the house.
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