Article Courtesy: Cognizant Reflections
Author: Sangeeta Deogawanka
The year 2010 has witnessed a few climate records that has mounted evidence of climate change the world over.
As the extreme weather patterns continued their drumbeat of climate change warnings through the year, "the proof was on the ground for all to see".
While record flooding swamped Pakistan; Russia was engulfed in raging forest fires that destroyed 40 per cent of grain crops and razed entire villages, even threatening Moscow; mudslides swallowed villages in China with a death count of 1400 in a single province (Gansu); cropping patterns changed drastically in many parts and the insurance industry sat up to take stock of the emerging situation. So by the time, the climate negotiators met at Cancun, climate change was no longer a distant risk, but a harsh reality that was already being felt all over the world.
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