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Even as the debate over global warming and other climate change issues continues, and analyses has shown that floods and other weather-related disasters have been soaring during the past decade across the world. While the number of earthquakes, volcanoes and other geophysical disasters remained quite the same over the last 10 years, there was an increase in floods and other weather-related disasters.

The loss of life and property due to weather-related disasters has also been on the increase in recent years. Though earthquakes proved to be the deadliest disasters, with much of it attributed to the killer-quake in Gujarat on January 26, over the 1990s, floods, windstorms, drought, famine and other hydro-meteorological hazards were responsible for as much as 71 per cent of all lives lost due to disasters.

Disasters cannot remain within the area of disaster managers alone. Development experts must play a bigger role in disaster management and risk reduction. Climate change associated with global warming could give all sorts of disease-causing organisms the chance they need to cause harm to plant and animal species - including humans.

For example, mosquito-borne infections, like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and certain tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, appear to be spreading, possibly due to milder winters.

Analysis shows that the debate over global warming has failed to:

A)  Control disasters related to weather

B)  Control disaster related to nature

C)  Control geophysical disasters

D)  Control floods, earthquakes and volcanoes

E)  None of these