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Philippines: Lessons from Typhoon Haiyan
2013-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Many at the climate conference in Warsaw and around the world see a link between global warming and the devastating typhoon in the Philippines. But several studies point to other causes -- and even more worrisome trends. The UN climate conference got off to a deeply emotional start in Warsaw on Monday. "It's time to stop this madness," said Yeb Sano, the lead Filipino delegate, fighting tears over the death toll of an estimated 10,000 from the typhoon catastrophe, in an address to his counterparts...
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An 'overwhelmed' Philippines grapples w/ loss, rebuilding
2013-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Towns in the central part of the Philippines are in ruins as disaster relief workers now conclude that billions of dollars will be needed to aid communities devastated by the deadly Super Typhoon Haiyan. More than 9 million people are affected and fatalities are in the thousands, according to the Philippine government's latest estimates. The daunting efforts to assess the needs of the hardest-hit areas of Eastern Samar province and the surrounding islands began as the world woke up to aerial photographs...
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Philippines: Geography, timing made storm worse
2013-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: An unhappy confluence of natural factors made Typhoon Haiyan one of the most ferocious tropical storms to make landfall in recorded history, creating the biggest storm surge since Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. in 2005. Several factors gave the storm in the Philippines its devastating power--torrential rain, a landscape that funneled the water and intensified the surge, and powerful winds with gusts that matched the speed of a race car. "There isn't any other known storm that's made landfall...
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Philippines pleas for action on climate change
2013-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Amid the devastating destruction of Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines has called for immediate action on climate change. In an emotional speech Monday at the opening of the United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, Yeb Sano, commissioner for the Philippines climate change commission and head of the Philippines delegation, called the climate crisis "madness" and said he would refuse to eat until progress is made. During the two-week meeting, representatives from some 190 countries aim to...
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Haiti, Philippines hardest hit by weather extremes in 2012: study
2013-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were hardest hit by weather disasters in 2012, a report issued at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday showed, as the death toll mounted from the latest typhoon to devastate the Philippines. Germanwatch, a think-tank partly funded by the German government, said poor nations had suffered most from extreme weather in the past two decades, and worldwide, extreme weather had killed 530,000 people and caused damage of more than $2.5 trillion. "The unfolding human tragedy...
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