2010 'exceptional year' for weather disasters

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2010 'exceptional year' for weather disasters: reinsurers

Oct 28, 2010
Catastrophic floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia, hurricanes

in Mexico: 2010 has so far been an "exceptional" year for weather disasters, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Thursday.

"This year really has been a year of weather records," Peter Hoeppe, an expert from Munich Re's Geo Risks Research department, told journalists.

"The first nine months of the year have seen the highest number of weather-related events since Munich Re started keeping records," he added.

Hoeppe added that a clear pattern of continuing global warming was contributing to the natural disasters.

2010 has so far been the warmest since measurements began 130 years ago. New temperature records were set in Russia (37.8 degrees centigrade) and in Asia (53.5 degrees in Pakistan)…”

See:
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/2010_exceptional_year_for_weather_disasters_reinsurers_999.html

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