چکیده:
Throughout the world we are witnessing the growing frequency of climatic anomalies such as flooding, storms, droughts or persistent forest and bush fires. They can have dramatic consequences for those affected, entailing loss of property and livelihood, famine and life threatening situations. Not least the floods in the Elbe river basin district in summer 2002, as well as those in the Russian Black Sea region, Bengal, southern China and south-east Asia, led many people to realize, even without definitive scientific proof, that there must be some truth in the theory of a man-made, measurable warming and that therefore climate protection must be given greater priority in future.