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Floods, drought top disaster warning list

Published: 25 Dec 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Heavy floods, storms and droughts top the list of natural disasters that will pose critical economic and social losses to global communities in the future, academics say.

Thanawat Jarupongsakul, head of the Unit for Disaster and Land Information Studies at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Science, said the three key natural disasters are closely linked to climate change.

From 1980-2010, the number of heavy floods, storms and droughts increased dramatically, while the number of earthquake disasters has remained stable.

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jaydee
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Discussion 7 : 25 Dec 2012 at 15.247
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Well, with China planning to build another 50 dams worldwide, it's man-made threats that are the real and present danger. With Myanmar and Laos planning to become regional energy hubs, Thailand's fate is far from secure; dams worldwide cause a drop in sea level (by a minuscule amount) but also the ground to sink, so Thailand's position is less than ideal. More droughts and flash-floods is a good prediction based alone on China's actions.
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Discussion 6 : 25 Dec 2012 at 15.046
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"seems like this discussion has been started by a couple of Climate Change Deniers"
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Wow. That's quite an extrapolation based on a complete misreading of both comments.

I was merely making a joke about such doom and gloom on Christmas Day.
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Discussion 5 : 25 Dec 2012 at 11.535
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Stop producing so much unnecessary instant disposable garbage like styrofoam and plastic .Start planting trees .Stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution .
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Discussion 4 : 25 Dec 2012 at 10.544
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seems like this discussion has been started by a couple of Climate Change Deniers
Oh well.Happy Denying for 2013
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Discussion 3 : 25 Dec 2012 at 08.273
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With the news that the Greenland and Antarctica ice shelves are melting at a pace faster than climate scientists predicted, and Bangkok being situated on a river delta, the danger is real, especially as the worlds 2 greatest CO2 emiters (China and the US), refuse to take the problem seriously.
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OldThaiHand
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Discussion 2 : 25 Dec 2012 at 07.252
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Aren't these guys a fun bunch. Maybe they need to get out of the lab more.

Merry Merry and Happy Happy to all.
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Discussion 1 : 25 Dec 2012 at 06.271
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I don't worry so much about the natural disasters.
It is more the man-made disasters that scare me.
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