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Extreme weather events are becoming more intense and more frequent.^12,13 (IPCC 2007)
Some of 2010’s major disaster events:
- Russian heat wave and fires. The summer 2010 heat wave as well as the polluted air from the forest fires caused fatalities in Moscow to double to a total of 700 people per day. ^14,15 (Russian Academy of Sciences) City officials of Moscow, Russia reported a 60% increase in the mortality rate this past summer, when nearly 11,000 of the city’s inhabitants perished due to the effects of excessive smog and record high temperatures. ¹⁶
- Pakistani floods. Massive floods, the worst in nation’s history, result in about 2,000 fatalities, more than 20 million injured or homeless. One‐fifth of country was underwater.¹⁷
- Chinese landslides. Nationwide floods and landslides leave over 3,100 killed and over 1,000 missing in 2010 alone. Floods across China increased sevenfold since the 1950s. ¹⁸
- Brazil was also struck by extreme heavy floods in April and June 2010 with hundreds of fatalities each time.¹⁹
- Poland suffered her worst flooding in decades in May 2010.²⁰
- Forest fires raged in Portugal in summer 2010, spurred on by low humidity levels, strong winds, and temperatures reaching record highs of 40 degrees Celsius.²¹
- In Chad and Nigeria in 2010, drought then floods that wiped out the small amounts of food crops left after the drought.²²
- Extreme cold and snow storms in 2010 in India, Northern Europe, North America, and South America
- A lot of earthquakes and volcano activity in 2010 disrupted Indonesia, Iceland, Turkey, Chile, Haiti, etc.
- Global warming can cause ice-capped volcanoes like Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull to more easily erupt due to the ice loss causing a release of pressure on the hot rocks beneath the Earth’s surface. ²³(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2010)
- Landslides and avalanches in high mountains have increased over the past decade due to global warming. Volcanoes are increasingly at risk of collapse with mega-landslides that could bury cities. ²⁴ (David Pyle, a volcanologist at the University of Oxford, Bill McGuire of University College London and Rachel Lowe at the University of Exeter, UK)
- Glacial lake outburst floods are increasing as lakes from glacial melt grow in number and size. ²⁵(International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, 2010)

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