Nov 30 2007
Oxfam Warns of Worsening Climate Change Hazards
GUEST: David Waskow, Policy lead on Oxfam America’s Climate Change campaign
Earlier this month Bangladesh was struck by the worst cyclone since 1991. Cyclone Sidr hit the impoverished South Asian country on November 15 with winds of 155 mph and a 5-foot tidal surge, killing around 3,500 people, leaving thousands missing or injured, and displacing 2 million. Meanwhile Oxfam International warns that natural disasters like Cyclone Sidr have quadrupled over the last two decades, from an average of 120 a year in the early 1980s to as many as 500 a year today. In a new report entitled, “Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites,” Oxfam warned this week that the at the same time as climate hazards are growing in number, more people are being affected by them because of poverty, powerlessness, population growth, and the movement and displacement of people to marginal areas.
Download the entire report here: http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/bp108_
climate_change_alarm_0711.pdf/download
One Response to “Oxfam Warns of Worsening Climate Change Hazards”
All hazards of global warming are caused by man made pollution of the develoed-industrial world. Therefore, the new treaty replacing the Kyoto TREATY SHOULD HOLD THE UNRESPONSIBLE for the damages suffered by the less developed people.