Thursday, April 5, 2007

Children bear brunt of climate warming: report - Yahoo! News

Children bear brunt of climate warming: report - Yahoo! News: "'Children are already bearing the brunt of climate change and there will be millions more children caught up in climate-related natural disasters every year,' said Jasmine Whitbread, head of Save the Children UK.
Business is already starting to feel adverse effects, according to another study on Friday by catastrophe risk modeling firm Risk Management Solutions.
It said financial losses from weather-related catastrophes had risen on average by two percent a year since the 1970s, and pointed to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005."

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