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assistance was only grudgingly accepted. This event highlights another aspect of more severe weather events. They often happen in politically unstable or poor areas thus affecting those least capable of dealing with them. Bangladesh, India, Parts of Africa and Latin America as well as the Caribbean and Southeast Asia are all vulnerable to more powerful and frequent tropical storms. These areas also contain some of the poorest and most unstable states.

Earlier in 2008, Rio de Janeiro Brazil saw one of the worst Dengue fever out-brakes on record. Thousands were sickened and many died as a result of having to wait for care from the over crowded and over taxed health care system. Dengue fever is a mosquito born illness and thus spreads well when the mosquito population explodes such as after heavy rains. At present, it is still mostly confined to the tropics, however as tropical weather patterns shift into more temperate zones, the dengue carrying species of mosquito is sure to fallow, spreading the disease into the Southern united states, Europe, and the higher latitudes of East Asia. This has already happened in California with the mosquito born West Nile Virus that has sickened many this year.

These illnesses are not likely to prove a great challenge to the health care systems of the more developed countries, but, as with the increase in severe tropical weather, their increased prevalence as a result of greater rainfall has already proved costly to the inadequate health care systems and public infrastructure of the less developed countries.

Along with the damage caused by more sever weather and the toll on human life from more disease, there has also been an increase in economic damage from the changing climate. According to a report by Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer on May 2, 2008, initialed, "Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing", Ocean dead zones are expanding as a the climate worms. As the atmosphere worms, stronger winds come off of the continents. These winds drive the major ocean currents more strongly than in the past. This causes a greater up welling of nutrients from the deep, which leads to a bloom of phytoplankton that feed on them. These would normally serve as food for organisms higher up on the food chain, but with stronger currents and subsequent greater up welling come blooms too large to be consumed by larger organisms. The phytoplankton dies off. As they decompose, the bacteria that do the work suck the oxygen out of the water,

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