[All] Climate Change & Fracking reports

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hi folks!

Some interesting reports were released today. Here's the breakdown.

The Atlas of Mortalities and Economic Losses from Weather Climate and Water Extremes by the World Meteorological Organization. 
Quick Highlights: 
	* Natural disasters are occurring nearly 5 x's as often as they were in the 1970s. 

	* Mortalities from climate changes vary depending on area. For Africa: drought. Asia: Storms. North/South America: Floods. Europe: Heat waves. 

	* Flood and heat are the main ones killing more people.

	* Top economic losses from climate change: for Africa, Asia, Europe & South America: floods. 

	* Top economic losses for North America: Storms.

	* From 1970–2012 Europe alone experienced 1,352 reported disasters leading to 149,959 deaths and loss of US$ 375.7 billion, 

	* Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the most costly disaster on record, resulting in US$ 146.9 billion in losses.

	* From 1970-2012, 8,835 weather/food/climate events resulted in loss of 1.94 million lives and cost US$ 2.4 trillion.
To view full report visit here: 

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/drr/transfer/2014.06.12-WMO1123_Atlas_120614.pdf



In another report, Canadian Natural Resources did a causality report for the endless bitumen spill happening still in Primerose Alberta. 

Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. ADMITS endless oil spill at Primerose may be caused by high pressure steaming. ( aka Fracking) Their report states that steaming could have fractured the cap rock causing 4 bitumen leaks at its Primerose site in Cold Lake, Alberta. To view the entire report visit here: 
http://globalnews.ca/news/1446546/steaming-may-have-caused-endless-alberta-oil-spills-cnrl-admits/




Lulu 
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