Vanuatu frappé par le cyclone Pam : 44 morts selon un bilan provisoire. L'archipel de Vanuatu, à 500 kilomètres à l'est de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, a été directement frappé dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi par un cyclone appelé Pam, d'une rare intensité...
Le bureau de l'ONU pour la coordination des affaires humanitaires a indiqué samedi qu'il tentait de confirmer des informations faisant état de 44 morts. Toutes les communications avec ce pays de 270 000 habitants sont coupées mais de premières informations avaient fait état de dégâts considérables. Le président du Vanuatu appelle à l'aide internationale.
Philippines: «Six mois après Hayian, il y a encore beaucoup de travail» Ce jeudi, cela fait six mois exactement que le typhon Hayian s’est abattu sur les Philippines.
Le 8 novembre dernier, Haiyan, l’un des typhons les plus puissants à avoir jamais touché terre, a frappé la côte accompagné de vents dépassant les 300 km/h et de vagues géantes semblables à un tsunami. After typhoon, Philippines faces one of the most profound resettlement crises in decades. That urgent but crude attempt to rebuild has raised the prospect that the storm-prone areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan will emerge more vulnerable to future disasters.
The self-made reconstruction effort also reflects the enormity of the damage. November’s catastrophe displaced more than 4 million people — twice the number of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami or the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Left largely to fend for themselves, people are living in or under whatever remains. They inhabit boats or freight containers flung ashore by the tsunami-like storm surge. They patch up near-destroyed homes with storm flotsam: twisted metal, plastic sheets and ripped mattresses. Climate Change Clouds Philippines’ Dream of Rice Self-Sufficiency - Southeast Asia Real Time. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A flooded market in the farming town of Novaleta, near Manila, on Aug. 19.
Climate change will complicate the Philippines’ efforts to become self-sufficient in rice, the country’s economic planning secretary said Monday. Arsenio Balisacan said preliminary data showed that 74% of the estimated damage from natural disasters in the country last year came in the farm sector, primarily affecting rice. The natural disasters include extreme weather caused by global warming, he said. “We expect these extreme events and unpredictable phenomena to become the new normal,” Mr. U.N.'s Ban calls for more funds for typhoon-stricken Philippines. #WeStandWithYou. Did Climate Change Cause Typhoon Haiyan? As the Philippines assesses the havoc caused by super-typhoon Haiyan, which according to some reports killed as many as 10,000 people, speculation is heating up as to whether the disaster might be a manifestation of climate change.
Speaking today at the first day of UN climate talks in Warsaw, the head of the Philippines delegation, Yeb Sano, said he will stop eating until negotiators make "meaningful" progress. But can the devastating storm be linked to the changing global climate? Nature wades into the evidence. Was Haiyan the strongest storm ever measured? Apparently, yes. It is the third time that disaster has struck the Philippine archipelago in less than 12 months. Is climate change to blame for Typhoon Haiyan? Incredible images and video of Super Typhoon Haiyan. Super Typhoon Haiyan, called Yolanda in the Philippines, struck the Philippines in the early morning hours of November 8, 2013 as one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall in recorded history.
At landfall, it was producing sustained winds at 195 miles per hour (mph) with gusts as high as 225 mph. We are still receiving information regarding damages and possible deaths. CNN reported late in the day on November 8 that more than 100 people were killed in the coastal Philippine city of Tacloban, but by this morning (November 9) the Red Cross was reporting over 1,000 killed in Tacloban. For now, I will simply share these images and video of Super Typhoon Haiyan. From a meteorological perspective, Haiyan is no doubt the most extraordinary storm I have seen in satellite images. I have seen pictures of storm surge flooding towns and strong winds blowing debris into the air. Image credit: NOAA Look at Haiyan from space. Image credit: CIMSS. November 10, 2013 - Given Typhoon #Haiyan, UN Must Fully Assess Climate Change Risk and Feedbacks.
Additional Background “The IPCC working group did not mean to provide a risk assessment of future climate change impacts and so it did not.”
—Anders Levermann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research, lead author of the sea level chapter for the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report. The IPCC synthesizes useful climate science, but has failed to produce a comprehensive global risk assessment of the threat posed by climate change. Typhon aux Philippines: Les autorités redoutent un bilan de 10.000 morts. Le bilan d'un des plus violents typhons à avoir touché terre s'est brusquement aggravé dimanche, les autorités philippines évoquant désormais plus de 10.000 morts et 2.000 disparus, faisant de Haiyan la catastrophe naturelle la plus meurtrière de l'histoire récente du pays.
Philippines blames climate change for monster typhoon. It’s hard to comprehend the scale of the disaster in the Philippines, where a massive typhoon may have killed more than 10,000 people.
But climate delegates who have gathered today in Warsaw, Poland, for a fresh round of U.N. climate talks will need to do just that. The Philippines is a densely populated, low-lying archipelago state that sits in warm Pacific Ocean waters — and warm ocean waters tend to produce vicious tropical storms. The country’s geography puts its islands in the path of frequent typhoons (typhoon is the local word — Americans call such storms hurricanes and others refer to them as cyclones). WMO says Typhoon Haiyan is climate 'wake-up call'
13 November 2013Last updated at 06:37 ET By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst In 2013, Australia experienced extreme heat and the consequent fires This year is likely to be among the top 10 warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
It continues a pattern of high temperatures blamed directly on man-made climate change. The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, told BBC News that warming could no longer be ignored. Yes, Typhoon Haiyan Was Caused by Climate Change. Share This article is a joint publication of TheNation.com and Foreign Policy In Focus. It seems these days that whenever Mother Nature wants to send an urgent message to humankind, it sends it via the Philippines. AFPphoto : A view to the sea over flattened... "Tout est détruit" à Tacloban, où les cadavres jonchent les rues. Le Monde.fr avec AFP, AP et Reuters | • Mis à jour le. Aux Philippines, dans un décor d'apocalypse, le calvaire des survivants. LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Florence de Changy (Tacloban (Philippines), envoyée spéciale) Abolish Climate Changing Subsidies. November 10, 2013 - Given Typhoon #Haiyan, UN Must Fully Assess Climate Change Risk and Feedbacks. Additional Background “The IPCC working group did not mean to provide a risk assessment of future climate change impacts and so it did not.”
—Anders Levermann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research, lead author of the sea level chapter for the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report.