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Devastation in Typhoons Path Slows Relief in Philippines
2013-11-11 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Decomposing bodies still lie along the roads, like a corpse in a pink, short-sleeve shirt and blue shorts facedown in a black, muddy puddle 100 yards from the airport. Just down the road is a church that was supposed to be an evacuation center but is littered with the bodies of those who drowned inside. When a wind-whipped ocean rose Friday night, the ground floors of homes hundreds of yards inland were submerged within minutes, trapping residents like Virginia Basinang, a 54-year-old retired teacher,...
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Philippines climate negotiator issued tearful plea last year: 'No more excuses'
2013-11-11 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: In December 2012, a month after Hurricane Sandy and in the wake of the deadly Typhoon Bopha, a Filipino climate negotiator broke down in tears halfway through his prepared remarks at a global climate summit in Doha, Qatar, and gave a stern warning to his fellow delegates. "Madam chair, we have never had a typhoon like Bopha, which has wreaked havoc in a part of the country that has never seen a storm like this in half a century," Naderev Sao, the lead negotiator of the Philippines delegation at...
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Typhoon Haiyan: Philippines Urges Action to Resolve Climate Talks Deadlock in Aftermath of Storm
2013-11-11 10:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: The Philippines government has firmly connected the super typhoon Haiyan with climate change, and urged governments meeting in Poland on Monday to take emergency action to resolve the deadlocked climate talks. "We cannot sit and stay helpless staring at this international climate stalemate. It is now time to take action. We need an emergency climate pathway," said Yeb Sano, head of the government's delegation to the UN climate talks, in an article for the Guardian, in which he challenged climate...
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Philippines: Science of storms: The phenomenon that powered typhoon Haiyan
2013-11-11 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: With a maximum sustained wind speed estimated at 195mph (315kph), Haiyan was probably the strongest tropical typhoon to make landfall in recorded history anywhere in the world, meteorologists say. So the immense devastation caused by the winds and even more by the storm surge of seawater they drove onshore is not surprising. There have been a few stronger storms out in the open ocean but well struggle to find a record of anything stronger than Haiyan making landfall, said Julian Heming,...
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Philippines Declares Calamity as Fresh Storm Approaches
2013-11-11 09:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Philippine President Benigno Aquino declared a state of calamity to speed aid to communities ravaged by super Typhoon Haiyan, which may have killed more than 10,000 people, as a lesser storm approached the nation. The government has 18.7 billion pesos ($429 million) to fund reconstruction after Haiyan unleashed storm surges and gale-force winds that caused vast destruction, Aquino said yesterday in a televised address. Today, a fresh storm threatening the southern Philippines may pass through...
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