US study warns of sudden climate change woes
Hard-to-predict sudden changes to Earth’s environment are more worrisome than climate change’s bigger but more gradual impacts, a panel of scientists advising the US government concluded Tuesday.
Hard-to-predict sudden changes to Earth’s environment are more worrisome than climate change’s bigger but more gradual impacts, a panel of scientists advising the US government concluded Tuesday.
Teams from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) and the University of Tokyo are lending their expertise and technology to help predict the impact of climate change on water security in Metro Manila.
The Philippines has urged the global community to set up a worldwide disaster insurance fund to support reconstruction initiatives.
Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They’re likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.
The heavy rains last week that caused severe flooding in Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon brought back memories of Tropical Storm “Ondoy” in 2009 and habagat (southwest monsoon) in 2012.
Sherlock Holmes solving crimes in foggy London is such a Western image, but not far removed from that of smog-gray Beijing at midday on Jan. 13, 2013. That the capital of an economy in Asia, the new nexus of global economic development, was covered in thick smog earlier this year warns the next wave of “tiger economies” such as the Philippines of the risks that development entails.
Many Filipinos need a lifestyle change fast if the country is to do its part in the global effort to combat climate change, which affects third world countries like the Philippines the most.
Clearly, climate change is not just a vague concept, especially for Filipinos.
The Philippines better-than-expected 7.8 economic percent growth rate during the first quarter of the year could have been even better if losses from recent disasters were lessened, according to an official of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
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.
