- Los eventos de clima extremos se están volviendo más intensos y más frecuentes.12,13 (IPCC 2007)
- Algunos de los eventos de mayor desastre en el 2010:
- Ola de calor en Rusia e incendios. La ola de calor del verano del 2010 así como el aire contaminado por los incendios forestales causaron decesos en Moscú que se duplicaron para un total de 700 personas por día. 14,15 (Academia de Ciencia Rusa) Oficiales de la ciudad de Moscú, Rusiareportaron un aumento del 60% en la tasa de mortalidad esteverano pasado, donde cerca de 11,000 habitantes de la ciudad fallecieron debido a los efectos del smog excesivo y altas temperaturas récord. 16
- Inundaciones paquistaníes. Masivas inundaciones, las peores en la historia de la nación, ocasionaron cerca de 2,000 decesos, más de 20 millones de heridos y que quedaron sin hogar. Un quinto del país estaba bajo el agua.17
- Deslizamientos de tierra en China. Inundaciones en toda la nación y deslizamientos de tierra dejaron cerca de 3.100 muertos y cerca de 1.000 desaparecidos solo en el 2010. Las inundaciones por toda China aumentaron siete veces desde la década de los años 50. 18
- Brasil también fue golpeado por fuertes inundaciones extremas en abril y junio del 2010 con cientos de muertos cada vez.19
- Polonia sufrió su peor inundación en décadas en mayo del 2010.20
- Incendios forestales que arrasaron Portugal en el verano del2010, acelerados por bajos niveles de humedad, fuertes vientos y temperaturas legando a niveles récord de 40grados Celsius.21
- En Chad yNigeria en el 2010, hubo sequía y luego inundaciones que se llevaron las pequeñas cantidades de cultivos alimenticios que quedaron luego de la sequía.22
- Frío extremo y tormentas de nieveen el2010 en India, norte de Europa, Norteamérica y Suramérica
- Mucha actividad sísmica y volcánica en el2010 irrumpieron en Indonesia, Islandia, Turquía, Chile, Haiti, etc.
- El calentamiento global puede causar que la capa de hielo de los volcanes como elEyjafjallajökull de Islandia haga que haga erupción más fácilmente debido a la pérdida de hielo causando una liberación de presión sobre las rocas calientes por debajo de la superficie de la Tierra. 23(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2010)
- Deslizamientos de tierra yavalanchas enlas altas montañas han aumentado en la década pasadadebido al calentamiento global. Los volcanes están cada vezmás en riesgo de colapsar con megadeslizamientos que podrían enterrarciudades. 24 (David Pyle, un vulcanólogo de la Universidad de Oxford, Bill McGuire del Colegio Universitario de Londres yRachel Lowe de la Universidad de Exeter, Reino Unido)
- Inundaciones por desbordamiento de lago glacial están aumentando cuando los lagos por el derretimiento glaciar crecen en número y tamaño Glacial. 25(Centro internacional para el desarrollo montañoso integrado (ICIMOD) en Kathmandu, 2010)
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