Friday, January 12, 2007
A rising tide of natural disasters
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Cape Town early morningPosted by SilverJade Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Lawrence E. Joseph - Apocalypse2012.com).
The Economist, a London-based news magazine that has reported on international business and politics since 1843, ends each year with a double issue summarizing major events and identifying subjects of significance for the year to come.
In the special year-end issue for 2006, this eminently respectable, conservative magazine ran a piece called “Nature’s Fury: A rising tide of natural disasters” which found that the number of such disasters has increased sixtyfold, steadily rising from the 73 disasters that occurred in the decade 1900-1909 to the 4,650 that happened in the decade 1990-1999.
“Whether because of global warming or some other cause, the number of climate-related catastrophes tripled between the 1970’s and 1990’s, and...
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Cape Town early morningPosted by SilverJade Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Lawrence E. Joseph - Apocalypse2012.com).
The Economist, a London-based news magazine that has reported on international business and politics since 1843, ends each year with a double issue summarizing major events and identifying subjects of significance for the year to come.
In the special year-end issue for 2006, this eminently respectable, conservative magazine ran a piece called “Nature’s Fury: A rising tide of natural disasters” which found that the number of such disasters has increased sixtyfold, steadily rising from the 73 disasters that occurred in the decade 1900-1909 to the 4,650 that happened in the decade 1990-1999.
“Whether because of global warming or some other cause, the number of climate-related catastrophes tripled between the 1970’s and 1990’s, and...
Read More...
