2010 is the record year of natural disasters

Floods in Pakistan, mass fires in Russia and super typhoons in Mexico show that natural disasters continue to set new records this year.

People dive in flood waters to evacuate to a safe place in Dadu district in southern Pakistan on September 29. (Photo: AP).

' This year is the year of weather records. Only in the first 9 months of the year, the number of weather-related disasters has reached its highest level since our group started storing disaster data , ' AFP quoted Peter Hoeppe, a specialist. analyze geographic risks of Munich Re Reinsurance Group in Germany.

The last great flood in Pakistan upset the lives of about 14 million people, killing at least 1,600 people and leaving 8 million people homeless. Pakistani Prime Minister, Mr. Yousuf Raza Gilani, admits this is the biggest flood in the country's history. The United Nations affirmed that this year's flood in Pakistan was the biggest humanitarian disaster in human history.

The hottest summer in more than 130 years in Russia has caused several hundred wildfires to erupt around Moscow and parts of western Russia in July and August. The fires that make up huge fumes in an area have dimension. about 3,000 km long from east to west. During the peak period, US satellites discovered more than 340 areas of forest that could be burned in Russia.

The leafless trees of the volcano Merapi at a house near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, Java Island, Indonesia on October 27. (Photo: AP).

According to AFP , Hoeppe added that global warming is one of the reasons for the increase in natural disasters. 2010 is the year with the highest average temperature in 130 years. New record of temperature is set in Russia (37.8 degrees C) and Pakistan (53.5 degrees C). Just last month, Los Angeles residents in the United States suffered a record heat when the temperature reached 45 degrees Celsius.

' It is clear that climate change is becoming more serious ,' Hoeppe said.

The French Academy of Sciences yesterday published a report written by 120 international scientists. The report confirmed that human activity is the original cause of global warming.