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2010 a year of natural disasters and trends
The year saw earthquakes heat waves floods and droughts causing massive losses and tied for the hottest period on record. Experts blame man made climate change and poor planning while events in Haiti Chile Russia Pakistan and the Philippines highlighted global vulnerability. By year end nearly 260 thousand deaths and 222 billion in losses were reported.
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Craig Fugate
U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Hand of
Man
Andreas Schraft
Swiss
Haiti
Port-au-Prince
Richard Olson
Florida International University
Chile
Earth
Russia
Pakistan
Wisconsin
Roger Bilham
University of Colorado
Vera Savinova
Moscow
Kevin Trenberth
National Center For Atmospheric Research
Boulder
Colo
Debarati Guha Sapir
World Health Organization
Centre For Research
Turkey
China
Indonesia
U.S
United States
Nashville
U.S. State Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
WHO
Oxfam
U.S. mid-Atlantic
World Meteorological Organization
National Climatic Data Center
Los Angeles
Florida
Australia
Amazon River Basin
Hong Kong
Schraft
Ghulam Ali
Iceland
Europe
Congo
Guatemala
Ecuador
Philippines
New York City
South Dakota
Vancouver
British Columbia