Sunday, July 24, 2011

Heat, Drought, Famine All Part of Coming 'Exponential' Increase Of Climate-Related Disasters

Climate change will "exponentially" increase the scale of natural disasters -- so when are we going to take this threat seriously?

With half of the United States under heat advisories, 22 people dead (and counting) from the extreme weather, the Horn of Africa experiencing the strongest drought in over half a century and famine conditions across parts of Somalia, how many more times can we comfortably repeat the mantra "though no single weather event can be linked directly to climate change, these sort of events are consistent with what climate models predict will happen" before more and more people die and we begin taking climate change seriously?

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