Picturing the Human Face of Climate Change



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This is the human face of climate change.
A displaced family wades through flooded water to a relief camp in Jankinagar, India in September of 2008. One hundred and twenty-three people lost their lives and nearly 20 million were affected by this flood - one of the worst in the state of Bihar, India this decade. The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, and droughts are on the rise because of climate change.

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69 Days before the climate talks in Copenhagen

Submitted by Joshua Wiese on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 - 17:44

Photo by Jr Lo. Katipunan, Philippines

Reuters: "As climate negotiators prepared to sit down in Bangkok to one of the last major negotiating rounds before Copenhagen, they got a brutal reminder of why the talks matter: Typhoon Ketsana tore into the Philippines, submerging part of Manila and bringing a 40-year record in rainfall. The resultant floods, brought about by 410mm of rainfall within 24 hours - twice the amount that drenched the United States during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 - have already killed over 140 people and affected 450,000...read more.