• Around 250,000 deaths occur worldwide each year as a result of natural disasters, 95% of these in poor countries. Global warming would intensify extreme weather conditions. The poor would remain the most vulnerable.

• The midwestern floods of 1993 are examples of the types of events that might increase with global warming.

• The rice paddies of densely-populated Southeast Asia would be over 1/3 destroyed if sea levels rose the predicted 1/2 meter.

• At present, an average of 46 million people experience annual flooding due to storm surges. That number will double by the year 2100 if ocean levles rise the predicted 1/2 meter, even with no anticipated human population increase.

• Climate models indicate that with global warming, heat-related deaths in very large cities would rise by several thousand annually.