Climate change may increase severe cyclones
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Around 2 million residents of the southern US city of New Orleans have been returning home, after fleeing the arrival earlier this week of Hurricane Gustav. In the end, the worst of the storm missed New Orleans - which also this week marked two years since the far more damaging Cyclone Katrina left much of the city in ruins. In our region, Burma and Bangladesh are still recovering from Cyclones Nargis and Sidr. Now, new research from the US suggests climate change will make storms like these more severe in the future.
Presenter: Sonia Randhawa
Speakers: James Elsner, professor of geography at Florida State University; Koji Suzuki, executive director of the Asian Disaster Reduction Centre
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