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Super Typhoon Haiyan a Wake-Up Call for UN Climate Summit
2013-11-09 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The timing is tragically ironic. As Super Typhoon Haiyan -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded -- smashes into the Philippines, sending millions fleeing for safety, negotiators from around the world are beginning to arrive in Warsaw, Poland for the latest installment of the United Nations Climate Talks, COP 19. Climate change is loading the dice for extreme weather events like Haiyan. The storms strength and rapid development have been aided by unusually warm ocean waters and warm, moist...
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Typhoon Haiyan flattens houses, triggers floods in Philippines; at least four dead
2013-11-09 02:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Typhoon Haiyan, possibly the strongest storm ever to hit land, was barreling out of the Philippines on Saturday after it flattened houses, triggered landslides and floods and knocked out power and communications across a number of islands. In the central Philippines, nearly all houses in Tacloban in Leyte province with a population of about 220,000, were toppled and casualties were feared to be massive, a disaster official said. "Almost all houses were destroyed, many are totally damaged. Only...
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Super Typhoon Strikes Philippines, Four Confirmed Dead
2013-11-09 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: In the Philippines they call it Super Typhoon Yolanda, the rest of the world calls it Typhoon Haiyan, but everyone agrees this storm is one of the most powerful and dangerous typhoons ever to strike the storm-prone island nation. Equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane on the U.S. Saffir-Simpson scale, the storm struck the central Philippines municipality of Guiuan at the southern tip of the province of Eastern Samar early Friday morning at 4:45 am local time. NASA calls it "one of the most powerful...
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Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan: As climate change continues, we should expect more devastating storms
2013-11-08 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: Tropical storm Haiyan built to a crescendo over the Pacific earlier this week before slamming, as a Super Typhoon, into the Philippines south of Manilla yesterday. The island nation was just picking itself up from an earthquake that struck a week or so before, and now is contending with flood, storm and deluge. Breaking lives and destroying communities, Haiyan grew in force steadily, with sustained winds of more than 310 km/h or 195 mph that had developed by Thursday night. It hit land with...
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Powerful Typhoon Causes Mass Disruption in Philippines
2013-11-08 10:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A powerful typhoon that ripped through the Philippines on Friday killed at least four people, officials said, but at least initially it appeared not to live up to fears that it would be a particularly catastrophic storm. Typhoon Haiyan, called Yolanda in the Philippines, slammed into the island of Samar, on the eastern edge of the Philippines, early Friday morning and sped across the islands in the center of the country. Some areas remained unreachable Friday night because of problems with phones,...
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