Former Senator Heherson Alvarez thinks that the world is so close to what is known as the “tipping point” where even the food chain will be directly affected.
When we observe Labor Day on Wednesday, let us remember our farmers—the backbone of our food supply. In our labor force, farmers are the most adversely affected by climate-related events, such as typhoons, due to their dependence on climate, poor economic condition, and high-risk areas. The challenge to us is to protect them, as well as our food supply, from climate change risks.
OUR WORLD now faces four major challenges. These challenges include climate change, the fuel crisis, financial crisis and food crisis.
Next to climate change, poor planning is getting the flak when it comes to environmental disasters. Poor planning is blamed for many things that have gone wrong in our country. From flooding to bad site location to poor land development and design, the list goes on. Corrupt politicians and incompetent developers who are responsible are clever enough to steer away from the blame game. In the end, the people are the losers because they are the ones who bear the consequences of bad decisions.
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set to release its next report, which will include several computer-modeled scenarios regarding the state of the planet in 2100. Based on just some of the environmental studies reported in the past year— species worldwide being threatened by the loss of their habitats, the record ice melt in the Arctic, oceans becoming more acidic as the waters absorb increased levels of carbon emissions, and calls to make large-scale changes to global cycles through geoengineering to counter climate change—the scenarios in the IPCC’s report may not offer hopeful outcomes.
CLIMATE CHANGE is everyone’s favorite punching bag. Many are quick to put the blame on climate change for just about anything that’s going wrong. Some people in government admit that it is difficult, if not impossible, to solve the many environmental problems plaguing our country due to the complex nature of climate change.
You may not know yet what IC3 means. But I trust you already know something about climate change. In fact, many ordinary Filipinos can already comment on it. Try asking a taxi driver what he thinks about the disastrous typhoons in recent years, most probably he will say: “Climate change kasi.”
The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say.
Regional and local experts in the green technology field are scheduled to end their discussion on the challenge of climate change and the opportunities for innovative solutions in an annual gathering being held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.
IT USED to be that weather disturbances like “Ondoy” and the southwest monsoon like that generated by an exiting Tropical Storm “Gener” were once-in-a-lifetime phenomena. But as this planet seems to plunge inevitably toward climate change, extreme weather conditions now happen more frequently and more intensely. Anything that stands becomes vulnerable, much more man-made structures.
Skeptics of climate change are being swept away by a swelling body of evidence that proves man-made factors have played a significant role in the onset and acceleration of this global meteorological phenomenon that has caused weather extremes at all corners of this planet.
Better believe it, environment experts claim the weather we have today is partly the result of our appetites. Although the causes of climate change is no doubt multifaceted, livestock propagation to meet the world’s incessant appetite for animal products has been assessed to be a significant factor in environmental destruction.
