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Amidst Typhoons & Climate Change, U.S. Spying Network Shows Contempt for Environment
2013-11-23 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Despite mounting evidence that global warming is leading to devastating environmental disasters in the Pacific region, the U.S. and its partners are suspicious of climate change advocates. Rather brazenly, Washington and its Pacific allies spy on those who are intent on reining in global warming. Indeed, according to the Guardian newspaper, which wrote a report based on Edward Snowden's recent disclosures, the National Security Agency or N.S.A. spied on Ban Ki-moon and obtained the United Nations...
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Climate change makes super typhoons worse, says UN meteorological agency
2013-11-14 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The United Nations meteorological agency has found the effects of climate change are making the impact of severe storms like Typhoon Haiyan worse. The World Meteorological Organisation's Michel Jarraud says Australia's record-breaking summer helped push average global temperatures higher this year, and rising sea levels worsened the situation in the Philippines. "The impact of this cyclone was definitely significantly more than what it would have been 100 years ago because of the simple mechanical...
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Devastation in Typhoons Path Slows Relief in Philippines
2013-11-11 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Three days after one of the most powerful storms ever to buffet the Philippines, the scale of the devastation and the desperation of the survivors were slowly coming into view. The living told stories of the dead or dying the people swept away in a torrent of seawater, the corpses strewn among the wreckage. Photos from the hard-hit city of Tacloban showed vast stretches of land swept clean of homes, and reports emerged of people who were desperate for food and water raiding aid convoys and stripping...
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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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Climate change influence on typhoons uncertain
2013-02-13 11:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IRIN: When Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest storms to hit the western Pacific in recent memory, slammed into the Philippine island of Mindanao last year, there was much speculation in the media about the growing influence of climate change. But science is still uncertain about whether atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas emissions have caused a detectable change in cyclonic activity. This was reported by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)/World Meteorological...
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