What’s going on? Are these extreme events signals of a dangerous, human-made change in the Earth’s climate? Or are we just going through a natural run of bad luck? The short answer is: probably both. Financial losses from such events jumped 25 percent to an estimated $150 billion worldwide in 2011. Deadly heat waves have hit Europe, leaving 35,000 people dead in 2003. Meanwhile, severe droughts have affected Australia, Russia and East Africa. The following year, floods in Thailand left factories near Bangkok under water, creating a worldwide shortage of computer hard drives. And record rains in Pakistan led to flooding that affected more than 20 million people. Also in 2010, 28 centimetres of rain fell on Rio de Janeiro in 24 hours, causing mud slides that buried hundreds of people. Extreme events like the Nashville flood – described by officials as a once-in-a-millennium occurrence – are more frequent than before. Two days later, 33 centimetres had fallen and eleven people had died in the resulting floods. One weekend in May 2010, Nashville in the USA was expecting a few centimetres of rain. Monolingual and Multilingual Word Lists.Four Skills Placement Test Package (IELTS).Split editions teacher's book references.Multilingual and monolingual word lists.Video: Using Life Video in the Classroom.
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