Sentences with phrase «weather calamities in»

The coalition's policy brief entitled «Weathering Extremes» reveals the worst weather calamities in the last decade cost the region tens of thousands of lives and more than US$ 4 billion annually.

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These paintings from 2005 to ’07 are a catalogue of The Day After Tomorrow — style weather calamities: a truck chugging through a blizzard; a fire throwing a big black cloud up at the horizon; the edges of neighborhoods collapsing into mudslides; rusting ships marooned in a desert that was once the Aral Sea; a car on a muddy road with its brake lights glowing as a great big brown beast of a tornado blenders the landscape.

There, as in so many places around the world, the prime driver of losses in severe weather calamities is poverty or settlement in danger zones.

Extreme weather and other natural calamities do not have to claim tens of thousands of lives and millions in damages.

It is that we haven't seen convincing evidence or arguments that don't appear to have been contrived, fudged, based on invalid calculation methods, or based on models (or proxies) that haven't been validated, by people who haven't owned up to past errors in prediction but are apparently continually rewriting history so that the latest weather calamity is suddenly discovered to have been predicted all along.

Meridian processes have been gaining in frequency lately, which promises different weather anomalies: unusually high and low temperatures, heavy rains and snowfalls and longer droughts, which in turn may lead to natural calamities.