Drought in southwestern China caused by climate change: "experts"
BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Meteorologists have attributed the once-in-a-century drought parching southwest China to climate change. [so what caused all the other "once-in-a-century" droughts?]
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Zhang said the reasons underlying it were the complicated ocean currents and anomalous atmospheric circulation.
Zhang said the lingering cold air mass that formed last September in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau had fenced off the warm and moist currents from the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, and at the same time the cold air from the north has had difficulty reaching the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau hinterland.
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Globally, climate-related natural disasters have climbed from less than 50 a year in the 1950s to between 350 and 450 a year in the 2000s. In 2009, extreme weather events affected 55 million people around the world, according to figures released by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).
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