Was Typhoon Haiyan a Record Storm?
Dearest Friends and Family,
With all due respect, if you heard Naderev "Yeb" Sano speak today at the UN climate summit in Warsaw, Poland you would have broken down crying like I did.
If you haven't heard his moving speech, you can here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSX...ature=youtu.be
Climate change is a hard reality. It's time to stop making excuses, missteps and misplaced roadblocks and agree with Sano who says the intensity of Super Typhoon Yolanda was caused by climate change. Science supports that unprecedented weather patterns reflect climate change that is causing us great harm, and must be seen as an opportunity to solidify our resolve to restore our planet. I agree with Sano that we must refuse to accept that our future will be filled with these horrendous climate atrocities. Lack of action and agreement to care for our climate and our impact on it shows a lack of commitment to take matters into our hands and do everything we can to lower our carbon emissions.
While some of us have sent relief money to the Philippines, there is more to do together. It's time to unite and understand that this weather behavior is unprecedented and requires immediate action!
https://act.350.org/sign/haiyan?source=fb-AK
Together, we need to take action --- not talk ourselves out of taking action, because otherwise we lack critical will to do what we can to decrease our collective suffering. Every time a person dies far away because of climate related catastrophes, it affects each of us.
Sano said, "To anyone who continues to deny the reality that is climate change, I dare them to get off their ivory towers and away from the comfort of their armchairs."
We must remain prepared to repair our planet and connect with those who fall victim to these atrocities and with those who are willing to try to fix this.
With compassion,
Maria
Was Typhoon Haiyan a Record Storm?
By Mark Fischetti | November 12, 2013
Breaking news can sometime include mistakes, and breaking news emerging from disaster areas can be fraught with errors. Journalists try to do follow-up stories to correct facts, and until then, other journalists reporting on the same event often resort to general language to cover the vagaries. So it has been withTyphoon Haiyan. Stories in the past several days have consistently called the event “one of the strongest storms in history.” Well, here’s what we know with a little hindsight and expert commentary.
Haiyan is the strongest storm to ever make landfall, according to Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at Weather Underground, a Web site often quoted by the best weather experts.
cont at https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...-record-storm/
