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When financial storms start blowing, despots can no longer respond by battening down the hatches and isolating their economy from the world because it has become part of the global market.
In contrast to last year, when the rush home for the lunar New Year celebration was hampered by freak storms, this year millions of migrant workers have already returned to their rural homes.
Without such a foundation, anti-immigrant political headwinds and storms will continue to impede international cooperation.
As a result, 2014 is now likely to be the warmest year in recorded history, a year that has also brought devastating droughts, floods, high-impact storms, and heat waves.
Many of the world’s largest cities, built on seacoasts and rivers, face the threat of rising sea levels and intensifying storms.
These days it is a growing industrial power which, after six and a half years of high-speed economic liberalization under successive governments of varying political hues, now has the largest middle class in the world, is an ever more enticing lure for foreign direct investment, and is economically stable enough to have escaped the financial storms that have wrecked much of east Asia.
Food prices are high today partly because food-growing regions around the world are experiencing the adverse effects of human-induced climate change (such as more droughts and extreme storms), and of water scarcity caused by excessive use of freshwater from rivers and aquifers.
In early October, the first autumnal storms turned the Moria camp into a mud field again.
Indeed, when adjusted for inflation and growth of coastal communities, Sandy ranks only 17th for US storms, and both the number and power of hurricanes that make landfall in the US have been declining slightly since 1900, not increasing.Similarly, in global terms, the energy in hurricanes during the last four years (including Sandy) has been lower than at any point since the 1970’s.
As Redford put it, we need to “reduce the carbon pollution that's fueling these storms.”
Indeed, when adjusted for inflation and growth of coastal communities, Sandy ranks only 17th for US storms, and both the number and power of hurricanes that make landfall in the US have been declining slightly since 1900, not increasing.
In the current situation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a new mission in life: to protect the periphery countries against the effects of storms that originate at the center, namely the US.ampnbsp;
The Single-Engine Global EconomyTOKYO – The global economy is like a jetliner that needs all of its engines operational to take off and steer clear of clouds and storms.
The global oil market has become a large sea that generates its own storms, which guarantee that the sea will continue to grow.
Since the beginning of the century, more than a million people have died in storms like Hagupit and other major disasters, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake, with economic damage totaling nearly $2 trillion.
The archipelago will always be in the path of tropical storms.
The second stage could be called the period of storms and stresses.
And there is no reason to believe that the storms of populism blowing across the continent will not make landfall in the UK.
As climate change exacerbates the effects of storms, flooding, and erosion, the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of those people will be at risk.
Beyond endangering lives, more frequent and stronger storms could cost many billions of dollars, owing to infrastructure damage and lost revenues from farming, fisheries, and tourism.
Coastal and marine ecosystems have considerable potential to mitigate the effects of storms and other risks, especially when combined with traditional built infrastructure.
A healthy coral reef can reduce wave force by 97%, lessening the impact of storms and preventing erosion.
If the world fails to mitigate future climate change, the effects of rising temperatures, increasing droughts, more numerous and severe tropical storms, rising sea levels, and a spread of tropical diseases will pose huge threats to the entire planet.
As it stands, the three storms are at different stages of formation.
With three storms looming, Europe’s leaders must act fast to ensure that they can dissipate each before it merges with the others, and cope effectively with whatever disruptions they cause.
But these buffers would be severely strained if the gathering storms converged into a single devastating gale.
But policymakers should not be so distracted by it that they fail to prepare for the other two possible storms – and, much more worrisome, the possibility that they merge into a single more devastating one.
Yet natural disasters like storms, hurricanes, and tsunamis are becoming more common, owing to climate change, which will also cause a rise in ocean levels, making seaside reactors even more vulnerable.
Kenya’s Perfect StormNAIROBI – It’s the end of the rainy season in Kenya, and this year’s storms have been almost biblical, washing away not only people’s sunny disposition, but also their bridges, buses, livestock, and crops.
Already, insurers of coastal property are throwing up their hands at the difficulty of figuring out how high the sea will rise and how hard the storms to come will blow.
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