Studies found that more than 530,000 people had died worldwide from 15,000 extreme weather events in the last two decades, including floods, mudslides and droughts, with economic losses of $2.17 trillionThe report showed countries that are recurrently affected by catastrophes, such as the Philippines and Pakistan, and are included both in the long-term index and in the last 4 years' lists of countries most affected.
The year's strongest typhoon, Typhoon Rammasun (local name Glenda), killed around 100 people, destroyed over 100,000 houses and damaged 400,000 others.Philippine government data shows that more than 6,000 people were killed and millions of others were affected by super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in 2013."Constant calamities from storms and floods take a heavy toll on the Philippines," said Raymund Liboro, assistant secretary for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction of the Department of Science and Technology. "We realized that climate change is the defining challenge for our people and planet."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/philippines-hardest-hit-by-extreme-weather-in-2013/http://interaksyon.com/article/121069/philippines-included-in-top-of-climate-change-risk-list
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ReplyDeleteYour post was very complete. But it focuses in cyclones (I did say in the tasks of the week not to work on those as they are this week's material) (:..I was hoping you'd talk more about the flooding/heavy rain that comes from those cyclones instead..