Living with climate extremes the greatest challenge in the 21st century?

摘要

Pakistan floods - July 2010 $9.8B, 20 million displaced • East African drought - ongoing 10 million people impacted • Australian drought and recent floods - many $ billions • Japanese Tsunami - March 2011, Insurance impact $10B, GDP -0.5% • Sri Lanka and Brazil floods - January 2011 $2B • Russian heatwave - 2010 killed 55, 821