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Posts Tagged ‘natural disasters’
Climate Change, Natural disasters, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 19th, 2012,
By Michael D. Lemonick For years, we who communicate about climate change have been wringing our hands over how to make people understand the problem at a gut level. Endangered polar bears? Too far removed. Island nations like the Maldives sinking beneath the waves? Too far away. Hot temperatures by 2100? Too far in the future. But like the first, outlying squalls from an oncoming hurricane, the first effects of climate change are already here, in the form of heat waves, droughts, intense rainstorms and more, and people are evidently noticing. Not just the extremes themselves: you couldn’t have missed…
Tags: Climate change, climatecentral.org, extreme weather, global warming, natural disasters
Climate Change, Natural disasters, Nature, Dec 8th, 2011,
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today that the official list of billion dollar weather and climate disasters in 2011 (for the US) is now up to 12, smashing the old record of nine, set in 2008. The total damage from these 12 events alone, says NOAA, stands at $52 billion and still rising — a hefty price tag in any case, but especially tough in a sluggish economy. The NOAA list got bigger after the agency separated out the Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona wildfires from the larger Southern Plains drought and heat event (it’s not cheating:…
Tags: climate central, Climate change, natural disasters
Climate Change, Nature, Weird Stuff, Aug 9th, 2011,
Natural disasters are unpredictable and can traumatize any individual irrespective of their caste, creed, sex, age or gender. It has various forms like flood, lightening, earthquake, volcanic eruptions etc. It can damage or totally annihilate your immediate environment and its effects can be evident for a much long time after it passes away. A natural disaster can damage the whole community as well. The children who undergo these disasters experience their effects for a long time. It many a times causes relocations of the families and communities as well. Thus people living in more disaster prone areas should learn the…
Tags: Climate change, floods, global warming, Google Earth, hurricanes, natural disasters, wildfires
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, Jan 4th, 2011,
2010 was a record-breaking year for natural disasters. According to Insurance ERM, a website dedicated to enterprise risk management, this makes 2010 the second-highest year of natural catastrophes since 1980. With a current yearly average of 785 natural catastrophes, 2010 saw in increase of more than 20% in occurrences of natural disasters. Furthermore, the high number of weather related natural disasters like storms and floods, about 90% of all reported catastrophes in 2010, is a further indication of advancing climate change. Several major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture…
Tags: 2010, 950 natural disasters in 2010, Climate change, earthquake, flooding, global warming, great natural catastrophes, hurricanes, insurance ERM, natural catastrophes, natural disasters
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, Dec 2nd, 2010,
With the COP16 Climate Conference going on in Cancun right now, temperature increase reports due to climate change make headlines all over the Internet. On Monday the Guardian reported that climate change scientists warn of a 4 degrees Celsius global temperature rise by 2060, that is to say within our lifetime. Of course 4 degrees Celsius is a global average. Europe now warns that the situation could be even worse in the Mediterranean Sea region. A temperature increase of 7 degrees Celsius is predicted before the end of the century. Although it sounds like science-fiction climate change is something we…
Tags: 4 degrees increase, 7 degrees increase, Climate change, european union, global warming, Italy, Mediterranean Sea, natural disasters, Spain
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Nov 17th, 2010,
I don’t know if you are familiar with the SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence)@home project, where computer owners can use their personal computers to help search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. The SETI project has been around since May of 1999 and the idea behind it is pretty unique: tap into the computing power of as many personal computers as you possibly can, considering otherwise a lifetime will not be long enough to process all the data you’re up against. Well from today on a new project with the same basic idea of shared and…
Tags: Climate change, climate models, Climate@home, ClimatePrediction, computing power, forecast climate change, global warming, natural disasters, SETI, SETI@home, weatherathome
Climate Change, Nature, Oct 30th, 2010,
Last night the Merapi volcano on Java erupted again, killing at least 2. This brings the death toll to 38 since the first eruption of the volcano earlier this week. Last week alone, with the tsunami hitting the shores of several Indonesian islands and with the eruption of Merapi, at least 450 people were killed. 300 people are still missing in the regions where the tsunami reached Indonesia. Rescue workers are having a hard time to look for survivors due to bad weather conditions and lack of adequate equipment.
Tags: Indonesia, Java, merapi, natural disasters, tsunami, volcano
Climate Change, Mar 25th, 2010,
The local seismologic institute has just released that Manila has been hit by a 6,2 magnitude earthquake. More details are unavailable at this time. We will update you as soon as we know more. By Murielle Ungricht
Tags: earthquake, magnitude, manila, natural disasters, Philippines
Natural disasters, Wildlife & Flora, Mar 23rd, 2010,
Every year, thousands of people are killed by violent acts of nature. This year, we’ve already seen earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and volcano eruptions. Even with warning systems in place, people still fall victim to nature’s wrath. Perhaps they were unprepared or tried to play the hero. Most likely, they were misinformed or simply didn’t know what to do during such an event. I have compiled some basic information on what to do when severe weather or forces of nature are heading your way. Check it out: Earthquake As soon as you are aware that an earthquake may happen, turn off…
Tags: earthquake, flood, how to survive a natural disaster, hurricane, natural disasters, Nature’s wrath, tornado, tsunami, volcano
Climate Change, Feb 28th, 2010,
In less than 24 hours, a good portion of the globe has been hit with a number of natural disasters. Unfortunately for them, the worst of it hasn’t even happened yet. Yesterday, Chile was hit by an 8.8 earthquake—one of the worst ever recorded. Homes, highways and bridges were torn apart and at least 214 people have been found dead so far. To make matters worse, that isn’t even the full extent of the damage and the death toll will most likely rise. A 15-story building in Concepcion (Chile’s second largest city) collapsed. The nation’s capital, Santiago, saw damage to…
Tags: Asia, Chile, Climate change, crazy weather, earthquake, flooding, global warming, Haiti, Hawaii, natural disasters, New Zealand, tsunami, weather
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 26th, 2010,
If you want a simple answer to whether climate change can affect natural disasters then it has to be a broad and resounding yes. Yet, as simple answers often go, it is a ‘yes’ that doesn’t quantify how much human activity contributes to climate change or therefore how much such contributions impact the rate or severity of natural disasters. Nor is it an answer qualified by which specific kinds of natural disasters are probably influenced by climate change. Obviously, simple answers aren’t very good at providing detailed information. Nor are headlines. The London Times, which seems to be lately adopting…
Tags: Climate change, earthquakes, global warming, hurricane, mangrove, natural disasters, study
