"The world is better prepared to face past calamities like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami but it's not ready for the extreme weather of the future," warned Margareta Wahlstrom, the special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, reports ABC via Associated Press.
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