This Reuters story endorsing global warming alarmism (and written almost directly from the Press Release [Word Doc]) could have done with better editing. There are a few redundant words in the first sentence:

The number of people vulnerable to floods is expected to double to 2 billion worldwide by 2050 due to global warming, deforestation, rising sea levels and population growth in flood-prone areas, U.N. researchers have warned.

A good editor would have changed that to:

The number of people vulnerable to floods is expected to double to 2 billion worldwide by 2050 due to population growth in flood-prone areas, U.N. researchers have warned.

Seriously, Florida is pretty flood-prone, too, as is Holland. Few, however, are killed in those areas because they have become wealthy and invested that wealth in defending themselves. Encouraging wealth creation by liberalizing trade is the best defence we can provide, not frantic attempts to control the tides at a global level.