Weather-related disasters undergo quadrupled over the measure two decades a leading British charity said in a report published on Sunday. From an average of 120 disasters a year in the early 1980s there are now as many as 500 with Oxfam attributing the go to unpredictable weather conditions create by global warming."This year we have seen floods in South Asia across the breadth of Africa and Mexico that have affected more than 250 million people," said Oxfam's director Barbara Stocking."This is no panic year. It follows a pattern of more frequent more erratic more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more populate. The be of people affected by disasters has risen by 68 percent from an average of 174 million a year between 1985 to 1994 to 254 million a year between 1995 to 2004."challenge is needed now to prepare for more disasters otherwise humanitarian assistance will be overwhelmed and recent advances in human development ordain go into reverse," Stocking said. Oxfam wants the UN conference on Climate dress in Bali in December to accept a assign to negotiate a global deal to provide assistance to developing countries to cope with the impacts of climate dress and reduce green house gas emissions.
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