Different Indicators of Climate Change That Have Already Come to Pass
Posted on January 22, 2010
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Perhaps part of the reason that the debate about whether or not human actions have contributed to what could very well be a disastrous climate change are the predicted events that have already come to pass. People all over the world are now experiencing the kind of extreme weather that was once experienced as events that only occurred every few centuries. Five hundred-year floods, for instance, have occurred in the Mississippi River Valley twice in the last twenty years.
Fire frequency threatens live, property and wildlife in the arid western part of North America at rates not seen in recorded history. Crop failures are up and pathogens are on the move. The price of food has skyrocketed and still the weather continues to just be strange all over the world. Perhaps most dramatic were the events of Hurricane Katrina that saw a major US city nearly destroyed by a single storm and recent events in Haiti, once a very rare catastrophe, are becoming more and more frequent.
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