EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!111!!!!!!!! Or not. Your choice. Me, I’m going to get a beer
Weather-related catastrophes brought about by climate change are increasing, the top UN humanitarian official said Sunday as he warned of the possibility of “mega-disasters”.
John Holmes, the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, said one of the biggest challenges facing the aid community was the problems stemming from changing weather patterns.
“When it comes meteorological disasters, weather-related disasters, then there is a trend upwards connected with climate change,” Holmes, who is in Australia for high-level talks on humanitarian aid, told AFP.
“The trend is there is terms of floods, and cyclones, and droughts.”
Ah. Wet and dry. All bases covered. Tautology. But not earthquakes, right?
“Cities like Kathmandu for example, which sits on two earthquake faults, where a large earthquake will come along… and the results could be catastrophic.”
Holmes said while some countries were well-prepared for disaster — such as Chile which was hit with a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake in February which left 520 people dead — others such as Haiti were less able to manage.
“That’s one of the reasons we want to focus on not just how we respond to disaster, we need to do that, but how you reduce the impact of those disasters before they happen,” Holmes said.
What’s amazing is that people actually fall for this bat guano.
Hurricanes getting niehter more severe nor more frequent: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
Droughts proving to be more numerous during cooling periods like the Little Ice Age (and the droughts in Australia are coinciding quite nicely with a well-known cycle of wet and dry weather there).
North polar ice at it’s highest extent for this time of year, in 30 years….
Don’t forget “Death From Above”
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/04jun_swef/