Topic: Prophecy News
Natural disasters have quadrupled in two decades: study
LONDON (AFP) — More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, British charity Oxfam said in a study Sunday that largely blamed global warming.
"Oxfam... says that rising green house gas emissions are the major cause of weather-related disasters and must be tackled," the organisation said, adding that the world's poorest people were being hit the hardest.
The world suffered about 120 natural disasters per year in the early 1980s, which compared with the current figure of about 500 per year, according to the report.
"This year we have seen floods in South Asia, across the breadth of Africa and Mexico that have affected more than 250 million people," noted Oxfam director Barbara Stocking.
"This is no freak year. It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people."
She added: "Action is needed now to prepare for more disasters otherwise humanitarian assistance will be overwhelmed and recent advances in human development will go into reverse."
The number of people affected by extreme natural disasters, meanwhile, has surged by almost 70 percent, from 174 million a year between 1985 to 1994, to 254 million people a year between 1995 to 2004, Oxfam said.
Floods and wind-storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 last year, with flooding itself up six-fold.
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This article is written by the secular press but is saying what the Bible says about an increase in natural disasters as we get closer to the Lord's return! However, it blames these increase in "natural disasters" on global warning. And this may be true but as an engineer with computer modeling skills and having read about some of the climate modeling plus a wealth of other information, I am skeptical of global warming even happening what's more being caused by man! Regardless the world is confirming what the Bible said thousands of years ago! Go here for an alternate viewpoint!