Climate of Our Future

U.N. Director for Climate Disaster Reduction Issues Climate Change Warning
Agence France-Presse, June 27, 2007.

“Recent floods in Asia and Britain, and heatwaves in southern Europe, show the world must be better prepared to cope with the impact of climate change, the United Nation’s top disaster prevention official said today. ‘Heavy rainfalls in Pakistan, India and northern England and heatwaves in Greece, Italy and Romania are indications of what might happen more frequently and more severely across the globe as a consequence of the global warming,’ said Salvano Briceno, director of the U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. ‘We cannot wait to be taken by surprise, we know what is going to happen and we can prepare for it,’ he added. The U.N. body is trying to convince governments to give greater priority to reducing the risks from natural disasters and increasing their populations’ resilience to potentially deadly storms, floods or heat waves.”