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Natural Disasters Climate Change

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Climate change and Natural Disasters
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Does climate change mean any sense as we are caught up in hurly burly travails of everyday existence? Though world over every year hundreds and thousands of people are killed, lost, or maimed in heat wave, flash floods, earthquakes or a Tsunami or a cyclone? Slowly and steadily climate change is impacting everyone across the globe by means of disasters, loss of lives or livelihood issues. Have we realized this though we rant about the changing weather conditions in our locality.
Consider this:-
* Global temperature data collected by US based NASA, NOAA, and the Japan Meteorological Agency, claimed this July was the warmest July on record going back more than a century. * According to the State …show more content…

The other 9 warmest years on record in order are: 2009 (0.77), 2010 (0.75), 2003(0.61), 2002(0.59), 1998(0.49), 2012(0.48), 2006(0.43), 2007(0.41) and 1987(0.40). It may be mentioned that 7 out of the 10 warmest years in India were during the recent past decade (2001-2010) making it the warmest decade on record.
The increase in temperature is, attributed by the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) on account of emission of green house gases world over.
What is the impact of climate change on a global scale? In simple terms, it is leading to submergence, coastal flooding, and erosion; reduce freshwater resource, decline of farm productivity among other things. But how vulnerable is India to climate change leading to natural disasters (See Box)
India highly …show more content…

Here too India has limited success. Says OP Singh Director General of National Disaster Response Force that globally efforts are focussed on responding to disasters than managing future risks. Disaster management efforts are yet to take off even though Disaster Management has issued guidelines way back in 2007. He points out that urban India is likely to grow two and half a times over the next two decades. This aggressive development could lead to unsafe structures. "That is why we want to empower the community as the first responder in any disaster is the top agenda of NDRF. That is why we are building the capability and skill of the community,” Singh pointed out recently at VIth Annual Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management organised by Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council in

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