The weather and earth scientists have provided better early warning systems for natural disasters in the past decade than in previous decades.

International relief efforts for victims of natural disasters have been better organized in the past decade than in previous decades.

There are records of major earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, droughts, landslides and floods occurring in the distant past as well as in the recent past

Population pressures and poverty have forced increasing number of people to live in areas prone to natural disasters

There have been no change in the past decade in people’s land use practices that could have affected the climate