Mozambique floods: climate change is causing more extreme weather events
Climate change
Severe storms and flooding across Britain, wild fires in Indonesia, extra-tropical storms in Central America, floods in Malaysia, Russia and Mozambique.... The world's climate is changing and the temperature is rising. The 1990s were declared the warmest on record. Extreme weather events are on the increase.
Is destroying the environment
High water temperatures are killing coral reefs. Rising sea levels threaten to engulf entire countries in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Mount Kilimanjaro looks set to lose its entire ice field by 2015. Enormous ice shelves are breaking off in the Antarctic. In Alaska, the ice is melting so fast that an area the size of the Netherlands disappears every year. Vulnerable species face extinction and bio-diversity is under threat.
Killing people
Meanwhile the fires, droughts, storms and floods and melting ice are wreaking havoc on entire communities. They destroy homes and local infrastructures. They place severe stress on people
