Why 3 Super typhoon hit us this year?This maybe the answer.

[larshell]

I got this from another Forum, share k lang.

[kupaloids]

Really disturbing. Buti nalang wala ako car, kahit papano nakakabawas ako sa pollution in my own "very" little way. Hehehe!

Ano nga ba ang pwede natin gawin?

[mazdamazda]

pffft... another one of those environmental extremist messages.

our climate has changes before dramatically even without the pollution that humans have created.

[explorer]

Greenpeace warns of more violent weather

December 02, 2006
Updated 17:44:19 (Mla time)
Delfin Mallari Jr.
Inquirer

LUCENA CITY -- As they lamented the loss of lives and the extensive devastation wrought by super-typhoon Reming (international code name Durian) on some parts of the country, the international environmentalist group Greenpeace warned of more violent weather events to come as a dire consequence of the continuing climate change.

"The tragic loss of lives and the massive destruction of properties brought about by the super-typhoon deserve immediate attention and sympathy from the international community. It should also serve as a wake-up call about the need for governments to find ways to avert or mitigate the catastrophic impacts of extreme weather events which scientists predict could become more severe because of climate change,” Abigail Jabines, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia, said in a statement furnished the Inquirer.

She said: “Scientists say that as global temperatures rise, the intensity of extreme weather events is likely to increase, and it is possible that in the future the impact of these events will become even greater.”

Greenpeace called on all governments worldwide to act decisively and urgently on climate change. The group also called on the Philippine government to invest in renewable energy resources such as solar and wind power "because it is poor countries like the Philippines who bear much of the brunt from such climate impacts.”

Climate change impacts have been manifested in the Philippines by extreme weather occurrences such as floods, droughts, forest fires, and an increase in tropical cyclones.

Greenpeace noted that extreme weather events associated with climate change, and the disasters these have wrought, have caused losses amounting to billions of pesos.

Citing research conducted by Dr. Leoncio Amadore, one of the Philippines’ foremost meteorologists, she said that the Philippine archipelago has already suffered severely from extreme weather events.

According to Jabines, Amadore’s report “Crisis or Opportunity: Climate Change Impacts and the Philippines,” shows that from 1975 to 2002, intensifying tropical cyclones caused an annual average of 593 deaths and damage to property of P4.5 billion, including damage to agriculture of 3 billion pesos (around US$55 million).

"The combination of strong typhoons, excessive precipitation, and landslides has caused a great deal of death and destruction in the Philippines. If we do not act urgently, climate change will further intensify the severity of extreme weather events,” Jabines quoted Amadore as saying.

Greenpeace also urged governments in the region to use the upcoming 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit as a platform to secure critical agreements on urgent measures to mitigate the impact of climate change across the region.

Examples of such measures include the massive shift away from petroleum-based energy sources and toward renewable energy systems and the setting of legally binding targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions around the world, Greenpeace said.

Reming is the latest in the series of deadly and destructive tropical cyclones to ravage the Philippines in recent years. The typhoon brought 466 millimeters of rainfall, the highest in 40 years.

Reming is also the third super-typhoon this year -- a first in Philippine history -- and the fourth major typhoon in as many months.

Typhoon Milenyo (international code name Xangsane) struck the country in September, causing more than P3 billion in damages and leaving more than a hundred casualties. Super-typhoons Paeng (Cimaron) and Queenie (Chebi) followed in October and November, both adding millions of pesos more to the damages already wrought by Milenyo.

[Negus]

pffft... another one of those environmental extremist messages.

our climate has changes before dramatically even without the pollution that humans have created.

Words of Al Gore (from the same movie):

"Isn't there a disagreement among the scientists about whether the problem is real or not? Actually, not really... There was a massive study of every scientific article and peer-reviewed journals written on global warming for the last ten years and they took a big sample of 10%, 928 articles. And you know the number of those that disagreed with the scientific consensus the WE are causing global warming and that it is a serious problem? Out of the 928, zero.....
(Science 3 December 2004:Vol. 306. no. 5702, p. 1686 DOI:10.1126/science.1103618)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten.../306/5702/1686


The misconception that there is disagreement about the science has been deliberately created by a relatively small group of people"

This study is done before the U.S. Government (Bush administration- philip cooney - in charge of environmental policy) deliberately repositioned global warming as theory rather than fact in an EPA memo (environmental protection agency). This was embarassing to the white house, so he resigned. and the day after he retired he worked for Exxon Mobil.

I think he said in one of the interviews that he'll never run for president or senator. so politics may be out of this issue.

[putalittlemore]

Kyoto Protocol

The treaty was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, opened for signature on March 16, 1998, and closed on March 15, 1999. The agreement came into force on February 16, 2005 following ratification by Russia on November 18, 2004. As of October 2006, a total of 166 countries and other governmental entities have ratified the agreement (representing over 61.6% of emissions from Annex I countries).[6] [7] Notable exceptions include the United States and Australia.

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[Negus]

the solution lies in new technology. Al Gore is aware that humanity is dependent on crude oil. High mileage cars is one solution, like the ones developed by countries who signed the kyoto protocol. ngayon nagkakandarapa makasunod ang american car companies sa yapak ng mga korean and japanese cars. .

[Alpha_One]

Simpler explanation actually: we're in the tropics, right in the Pacific too. Bad weather expected. You might also ask why we get minor earthquakes every five minutes or so. Occam's Razor.

[Jun aka Pekto]

While I do agree with Greenpeace in their effort to make countries conserve natural resources and develop alternative sources of energy, I have to lay some doubt on the accuracy of their accessment that the current weather patterns were caused by us.

Hurricanes and typhoons have always been around and there had been really severe storms in the past as shown by so many sunken treasure ships that plied the Spanish Galleon trade routes from the New World to Europe. Most were lost to storms. Earlier than that, there was a severe storm which destroyed a Mongol invasion fleet headed for Japan which originated the term "kamikaze".

We've only started official measurements within the last hundred or so years. So, there's no way to tell just yet whether all these are part of a natural longterm weather cycle or in fact caused by us. To draw conclusions from such a short period is irresponsible.

[oldblue]

earth is like the human body, kung may foreign object na pumasok na hindi naman dapat andun sigurado magkakasakit ang body.


pero yun naman mga gas emissions eh product naman ng mga materials na nakuha din sa mundo natin. so I highly doubt that we are destroying our environment unless we smuggle in matter that are extra-terrestial by nature.

kung meron man freak weather/storms, it's just the earth correcting itself. the mudslides in Albay, that's nature telling the people of Albay, off-limits kayo dito sa paanan ng Mayon.

bakit nagkarun ng Asian Tsunami? too many people have been in the coastal areas of the Indian ocean for so many years. they maybe causing some sort of imbalance to the environment there. so yun linis sya ...

when Mt. Pinatubo exploded, saktong-sakto na may dumadaan na supertyphoon noon, at saktong-sakto din sa eye of the typhoon sumabog ang Pinatubo --> the result -> Lahar flow. nilinis nya ang Central Luzon.

I have seen Laguna Lake from the Sarimanok theatre sa UP Los Banos, if there's one thing we should fear Manilenos about our future, it's the Laguna Lake. this is one big body of water. tuldok lang ang Makati CBD dito from where I viewed it.

Siguro mga 5-10 freak storms in Manila pa, Laguna lake will overflow tapos yun nearby cities like Paranaque, Las Pinas, Alabang, Tanay, Morong, Laguna, malamang ma-overrun yan ng tubig. and with all these cities, getting water from underground, di malayo mapabilis ito.

so that's how I understand our nature, hindi nagkakasakit ang mundo natin. it's just acting the way it should be. balance what is not balanced. clean what is dirty or clogged.