Data tells climate change warnings! Water-related hazards dominate disaster list in 50 years

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Friday said that water-related hazards dominate the list of disasters in terms of both the human and economic toll over the past 50 years.

According to WMO's Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes, the United Nations spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters in New York that "of the top 10 disasters, the hazards that led to the largest human losses during the period have been droughts with 650,000 deaths, storms 577,232 deaths, floods 58,700 deaths, and extreme temperature 55,736 deaths."

"With regard to economic losses, the top 10 events include storms and floods," he said.

Haq also said that over a 50 year period the data reveals that "weather, climate and water hazards accounted for 50 percent of all disasters, 45 percent of all reported deaths, and 74 percent of all reported economic losses at the global level."

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