Sentences with phrase «total global flood»
Asia had the highest number of people living in the flood plain: 30 % (137 million) of Asia's LECZ population resided in the 100 - year flood plain in the baseline year 2000, which made 73 % of the total global flood plain population.
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He estimated that insured losses for the global industry would total between $ 20 billion and $ 30 billion, which would put the storm on a similar scale to Hurricane Sandy, whose storm surge caused flooding in New York in 2012.
Following the global report indicating that Ghana's market has been flooded with toxic diesel, it has been reported that data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), the state owned strategic reserve holder, accounts for a significant 25 % of the total quantity of diesel imported into the country for the first six months of 2016.
Following the global report indicating that Ghana's market has been flooded with toxic diesel, it has been reported that data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has revealed that Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), the state owned strategic reserve holder, accounts for a significant 25 % of the total quantity of diesel imported into the country for the first...
«Miami Beach is at such grave risk of sea water flooding today that it should preemptively be declared a disaster zone — not because of global - warming - driven sea level rise but due to a seeming total lack of sensible civil engineering standards and sensible building codes.»
Included here are the climate - change - related costs of extreme weather events such as Hurricanes Irene (which resulted in damages totaling $ 20 billion) and Sandy ($ 65 billion), along with the costs we incur from increasingly dangerous floods, wildfires, and heat waves that are fueled by global warming.
droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, global ice cover, and rainfall are about the same (maybe a slight increase in total rainfall); forests and all other vegetation that has been studied are growing faster; actual effects of putative ocean pH change are negligible to non-existent.
For example, KPMG estimates that climate change could put the total profit of the global food industry at risk by 2030, and the OECD predicts over $ 45 trillion of assets could be at risk by 2050 due to floods.