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Record disasters from global warming.

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Global warming caused a record number of natural disasters across the world in 2007, up nearly 20 per cent from the previous year, according to the Geneva-based Red Cross.

As of October 10, the federation had already recorded 410 disasters.

An estimated 56 per cent of them were weather-related.

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"This is consistent with the trend of rising numbers of climate change-related disasters," said the World Disasters Report of the International Federation of the Red Cross

Over the past ten years, the number of natural disasters has risen by 40 per cent from the previous decade, while the number of associated...

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