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Carbon released in the Philippines might never be recovered
2013-11-17 22:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Just over a week ago Typhoon Haiyan smashed into the Philippines. Thought to be the strongest storm ever to make landfall, Haiyan's sustained 235kph winds brought devastation. More than 2,000 are known to have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands are homeless. Meanwhile, Haiyan has brought environmental disaster too. Millions of uprooted trees will bump up global warming, by adding carbon to the atmosphere. It is too early to say how much carbon, but calculations for previous tropical cyclones...
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Philippines: Apocalypse now!
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Star: FROM "very likely" in 2007 to "extremely likely" in 2013 -- that's how certain the United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on its assessment that global warming is a man-made problem. "The IPCC report should be a wake-up call to the rest of the worlds leaders that we human beings are the main cause behind global warming, and that it is up to all of us to do something about it," Voltaire Alferez, Aksyon Klima Pilipinas national coordinator, told Philippine EnviroNews. The...
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Philippines: Filipino farmers most vulnerable to climate change
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABS-CBN: Filipino farmers are highly vulnerable to climate change. Year in, year out, they see their crops mowed down by strong winds from storms that come during harvest season. Lack of irrigation infrastructure also makes them vulnerable to droughts. To increase the fighting chance of Filipino farmers against dangerous climate change impacts, Karen Tuason, a member of Task Force Mapalad, has started a project that focuses on young farmers. It also teaches them new farming methods and technologies to increase...
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Philippines: Storm 'climate change wake-up call'
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: The devastating typhoon in the Philippines must act as a wake-up call to the impact of climate change, aid agencies have warned. Members of the Disaster Emergencies Committee (DEC) are warning leaders meeting at the UN climate talks in Warsaw that the disaster offers a glimpse of the future if urgent action is not taken. Aid agencies including Christian Aid, CAFOD, Care International, Oxfam and Tearfund said ministers meeting in the Polish capital must act urgently because climate change is...
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Ban says Philippines typhoon "warning" on climate change
2013-11-16 10:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Channel NewsAsia: UN leader Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday a super typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines was an example of climate change and should serve as a warning to mankind. Ban was speaking at the Tallin University in Estonia on a tour of several Baltic states before joining a second week of climate talks in Poland. The UN chief said the world was facing a tipping point, as countries thrash out a deal to be signed in 2015 to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions. "There are a lot of people...
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