[I blame American cell phone chargers]: Climate-related disasters forced 20 million out of homes in 2008 - UN

According to the study "Monitoring Disaster Displacement in the Context of Climate Change", climate changes are already increasing the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, and the numbers of natural disasters reported and people affected are rising.

"Had it not been for the Sichuan earthquake in China, which displaced 15 million people, climate related disasters would have been responsible for over 90 percent of disaster-related displacement in 2008," the study commented.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Replication of Pielke (2007)

In other words, assuming a direct greenhouse gas-tropical cyclone link, reducing greenhouse gas emissions such that they have no effect addresses a maximum of only 4% of the increased losses in 2050, under the assumptions of the study. Obviously therefore, damage from tropical cyclones is primarily an issue of adaptation to climate, not mitigation.

Antarctic glaciers 'melting faster than previously thought' - Telegraph

Lasers beamed from space have found that glaciers in the Antarctic and Greenland are melting faster then previously predicted, according to scientists.

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