Natural Disasters & Global warming
Upon analysis of my crit notes and feedback I have decided to look into a selection of natural disasters and collect statistics on these and provide input from peers with a quick tally chart questionnaire on how long people think it will take for us to have such disasters happen to us unless we do something to change this growing problem. I will also look briefly into how global warming is making such disasters happen much more frequently and with much more ferociousness.
The research on these disasters will be sourced from foreign newspapers to see the style of the writing and tone of voice compared to UK newspapers. I am after main statistics so these are what I will gather to form a base for my visual responses in the next brief. I will also highlight key words that communicate the severity of the disaster.
Facts:
1'700 people dead.
100'000 missing.
Category 3 storm.
145mph winds.
29 foot wall of water.
$14.5billion levee system failure.
One of 5 deadliest hurricane recorded.
4 storms in one.
Words:
Pummeled.
Devastating force.
Drowned.
Distress.
Submerged.
Disaster.
Again a very sinister tone of voice probably more aggressive in terms of the way the destruction is described, but this is probably due to the first hand experience of the reported who was there at the time. Not like UK newspapers who report from outsources when disasters happen in different countries.
UK storm 1987 Facts:
18 dead.
Force 10 winds.
15 million trees destroyed.
2billion in damage.
St Jude 2013 Facts:
4 in the UK.
90mph winds inland
120mph winds coastal Denmark.
1.2 inch of rain.
1.3 Million homes without power for 48 hours.
500million in damage.
2004 TsunamFacts:
230'000 dead over 14 countries.
98ft waves.
$14billion in aid.
6200mph rupture. (The moving of the tectonic plates)
I have also included a brief insight onto the top countries in terms of pollution who are effecting global warming and I will link these into the disasters they have experienced to see any connections.
Below is a visual statistic of the worlds most polluting countries. The units are measured in Carbon Dioxide emissions in thousands of tons per year. The top 10 countries shown here emit more than 67% of the worlds total emissions combined.
The top 10 countries that emit the most pollution are:
China: 7,031,916 tons 23.5% of worlds emissions
United States: 5,461,014 tons 18.27% of worlds emissions
India: 1,742,698 tons 5.83%
Russia: 1,708,653 tons 5.72%
Japan: 1,208,163 tons 4.04%
Germany: 786,660 tons 2.63%
Canada: 544,091 tons 1.82%
Iran: 538,404 tons 1.8%
United Kingdom: 522,856 tons 1.75%
And out of these countries the ones who experienced significant disasters that made history as some of the worst disasters in history were:
USA -1900 Galveston Hurricane
USA - Hurricane Katrina
USA - Blizzard of 1888
Indonesia - 2004 Tsunami
USA - 1906 san Fransisco earthquake
China - 1887 yellow river flood
USA - Great tri state tornado of 1925
USA - New Hampshire Hurricane 231mph wind
USA - The perfect storm of 1991
USA - Johnstown flood 1889
Yet Indonesia came 4th with the 2004 and only contributed to 1.3% of the worlds carbon emissions. And shockingly the number one contributor to global warming is China and they only ever experienced one major disaster that made history. In my opinion it is very selfish and careless of such countries to make such a harmful stamp on the world knowing full well the consequences that can arise yet the ones who don't experience the disasters frequently are the ones who cause the most damage. This brings me onto rounding up all my gathered research and information.
It was an interesting subject to look into was the storm of the century that was forecast this year. It provided me with lots of branches to research into and has gathered me a lot of interesting statistics I plan on using to take onto my next task and form a visual response with this information found. The visual response will form a informative outcome highlighting links between the global warming issues and disasters. But to sum up my feelings of what I have found I have to say I am shocked In a sense of the scale of of the disasters and the unreal figures that go along with underlying aspects within the disaster itself. A 62000mph rupture? its quite frankly frightening imaging a tectonic plate, basically a section of the earth moving at such pace.
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