Weather-related disasters rise five-fold from 1970s to 2000s

The Ecologist
Aug 19, 2014, 1:03 pm117 pts
Data collected by the WMO shows there were almost five times as many weather- related disasters in the first decade of this century than in the 1970s, writes Chris Rose. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the most expensive ever, costing $147 billion.

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