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Extreme weather new normal in Australia's disaster-prone neighbourhood

2015-03-16 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: If it seems to you that major humanitarian emergencies are happening more often, you're right. Extreme weather events like the one that devastated Vanuatu on Saturday are on the rise. Since 2000, the average number of climate-related disasters each year has been 44 per cent higher than between 1994 and 2000 and well over twice the level during the 1980s, a data-based managed by Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters shows. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...

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