Not exact matches
Severe
flooding, structural
damage to homes and the loss of all electricity, except
from backup generators, were three of the most pressing problems
facing Puerto Ricans, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose state is home to many of Puerto Rican descent, said during a tour of the island.
Staten Island City Councilmen Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo took a trip to New Orleans in late January to try to learn
from the city's recovery efforts
from Hurricane Katrina, and said they were shocked to learn about some of the problems homeowners
faced as they tried to raise their homes on pillars to prevent
damage from future
floods.
New research predicts that coastal regions may
face massive increases in
damages from storm surge
flooding over the course of the 21st century.
Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice
from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more
damaging and intense drought and
floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the
face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,
The United States is
facing increasingly frequent and intense precipitation events and ever higher
damages from flooding each year due to climate change and urbanization.
The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice
from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more
damaging and intense drought and
floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&
floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst
Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&
Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the
face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»
Because climate change is likely to cause death to many, if not millions of people, through heat stroke, vector borne disease, and
flooding, annihilate many island nations by rising seas, cause billions of dollars in property
damage in intense storms, and destroy the ability of hundreds of millions to feed themselves in hotter drier climates, the duty to refrain
from activities which could cause global warming is extraordinarily strong even in the
face of scientific uncertainty about consequences.
Damage from a
flood is NOT covered under a standard homeowners policy By John D. Doak, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner The top four disaster risks we
face here in Oklahoma are tornadoes, hail, wildfires and
floods.