By the raging hurricanes,

By the raging hurricanes,

Hurricanes are measured according to three dimensions frequency, intensity, and duration. The frequency of hurricanes has not changed much, if at all.

Four hurricanes brushed the Islands in 2004.

We know that hurricanes have always happened in the past.

The hurricanes that struck the Caribbean in the fall of 2004 and that revisited in 2005 in the form of Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma were the strongest in a decade.

Last year many Caribbean countries were battered by hurricanes, and the Eastern Caribbean nation of Grenada was in the unfortunate situation of facing the onslaught of two major hurricanes in one calendar year.

HIV AIDS kills and affects more people than do earthquakes and hurricanes combined.

A number of hurricanes hit the Caribbean between August and October 2004, causing substantial damage.

Furthermore, traditional telecommunications systems were often severely affected by disasters such as earthquakes, floods or hurricanes.

Certainly, humans cannot prevent the occurrence of natural phenomena such as typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

When tsunamis, hurricanes or earthquakes strike and cause destruction, we act swiftly at least in most cases.

According to the underlying science that Bush ignores, hurricanes take their energy from the warmth of seawater. That is why hurricanes occur in hot tropical regions, and at the end of the summer months, when the sea surface temperatures are at their annual maximum.

It is now estimated that the hurricanes have resulted in a net loss in employment of about 40,000.

Extreme events, such as droughts, floods and hurricanes, will be less extreme and less frequent with successful mitigation.

The passage of those two hurricanes reversed all the gains we had made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

The stronger and more frequent hurricanes and typhoons in the Caribbean and the Pacific yet again prove this fact.

In the Caribbean, we have our own experience with hurricanes, and during the last season we suffered widespread devastation.

The United States Virgin Islands faces recurrent hurricanes and flooding, in addition to being located within an earthquake risk zone.

The devastation wrought by the increased intensity of hurricanes can set back our development efforts by decades, and has indeed done so.

In many rural areas, deteriorating and outdated infrastructure has lost its resilience to climate related extreme events such as hurricanes and droughts.

Meanwhile, Haiti s ecological and demographic conditions posed huge development challenges that have never been overcome. The island is hit regularly by devastating hurricanes.

The experiences suffered as a result of the hurricanes that battered the Caribbean Basin, the Gulf of Mexico and Central America confirm that.

I would also like to express my delegation's deepest sympathy on the plight and suffering of the victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The 2004 hurricane season was particularly harsh in the Caribbean. Four hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne caused damaging floods between August and October.

This global network of observatories using Inmarsat systems contributes to the prediction and monitoring of cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons and other variables affecting maritime weather.

In the aftermath of the 2004 hurricanes, the Government of Grenada issued a disaster reduction policy that introduced risk reduction into the whole recovery process.

The frequency, intensity and span of hurricanes and tropical cyclones have increased and are causing unprecedented damage and devastation to the livelihood of our States.

The tsunami in Asia was preceded by devastating hurricanes and tornadoes in the Caribbean and North America, and destructive phenomena in other parts of the world.

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and drought, on those Territories

Several devastating natural disasters have also occurred in the past year, including hurricanes in the Caribbean, locusts in the Sahel and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Job losses occurred in Mississippi and Louisiana however, they also occurred in faraway Michigan, where layoffs of almost 3,000 auto workers were directly attributed to the hurricanes.

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories

The South Asian earthquake is the most recent in a string of severe and devastating natural disasters, including the Indian Ocean tsunami and numerous hurricanes and cyclones.

Some Parties provided information on the vulnerability of tourism, infrastructure, energy systems and biodiversity, which would be affected by increased frequency and intensity of storms and hurricanes.

Whereas natural disasters included floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides and certain types of widely spreading infectious diseases, human induced disasters included explosions, armed conflicts, motor and aircraft accidents, chemical spills etc.

Noting also that the Caribbean region is the second most hazard prone region in the world and is frequently exposed to devastating hazards including earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions,

So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis that adding a man made disaster is all the more tragic. But that is what Europe is doing.

In addition, the floods, hurricanes, snowstorms, locust infestation and droughts that have occurred across the globe have caused widespread devastation and a loss of livelihood for hundreds of millions of people.

The increased frequency of hurricanes in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, the swarm of locusts in Africa and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean were among the most devastating.

So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis 160 that adding a man made disaster is all the more tragic. But that is what Europe is doing.

The devastating impact of the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean region and the United States had further impressed on the international community the urgency and importance of the issue of climate change.

Intensity measures a hurricane s force, which includes wind speeds, and there has been some recorded increase. The biggest change, however, has been in the duration of hurricanes how many days each hurricane lasts.

Nine of every ten recorded disasters are now climate related. As many as 50 million people around the world are estimated to be displaced each year by floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and landslides.