文档介绍：29 全球变暖导致自然灾害增多
Global Warming Blamed For Increase in Natural Disasters
Lisa Schlein
Geneva
28 Jun 2001 17:49 UTC
The 1)International Red Cross Federation is blaming global warming for an increase in natural disasters around the world. In its annual World Disasters Report, the Red Cross says people in poorer countries are particularly 2)vulnerable.
Last year, the Red Cross report says, a record 256 million people were affected by natural disasters. Over the past decade, according to the report, natural disasters have killed 750,000 people.
While the number of earthquakes and 3)volcanic 4)eruptions has remained steady over the past decade, what the report refers to as hydro-meteorological disasters - floods, 5)droughts and 6)hurricanes - have increased dramatically.
The head of Red Cross Operations in Africa and the Middle East, Roger Bracke, says the agency believes these increases are related to global warming. "We see total 7)abnormal patterns, repetition of floods in areas where we have seen those less frequently," he said. "We also have seen massive droughts - India ... Tajikistan ... Uzbekistan ... - on a much larger scale than we have seen before. The frequency and extent of the problem have no other 8)explanation today than global warming."
The report says people in poorer areas, because they lack resources, are usually the ones who suffer the most after