Links tagged “haiyan”

Pielke Jr.: 'Writing in the New York Times today Coral Davenport makes a strong claim about typhoons in the Philippines:

"A series of scientific reports have linked the burning of fossil fuels with rising sea levels and more powerful typhoons, like those that have battered the island nation."

Pielke Jr.: 'I am unaware of any scientific report that has linked the burning of fossil fuels to more powerful typhoons, whether they have hit the Philippines or not.'

Yeb Sano: 'To anyone who continues to deny the reality that is climate change, I dare you to get off your ivory tower and away from the comfort of you armchair. I dare you to go to the islands of the Pacific, the islands of the Caribbean and the islands of the Indian ocean and see the impacts of rising sea levels.'

Filipino negotiator says his monthly ritual of fasting is helping him to secure a strong UN treaty on climate change - 'Fasting allows you to understand where others come from and lead you to solutions that would go beyond the confines of what is written, what is conventional'

Gore: 'Depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available. so women can chose how many children and the spacing of children -- is crucial to the future shape of human civilization. Africa is projected to have more people than China and India by mid-century More than China and India combined by end of the century. and this is one of the causal factors that must be addressed' - (Gore also links Typhoon Haiyan and Sandy to man-made global warming - Video of Gore here at 15 min. mark)

Update: Czech Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: 'It is immoral for Al Gore to organize 'fertility management' for other nations': Motl: 'It is impossible not to think that there's some racism and stunning hypocrisy if a jerk (Gore) who has produced four children is 'working' on the reduction of the number of newborn babies in a completely different nation.'

Reality Check on Gore:  UN Climate Summit Rejects Its Own Science – Links Typhoon Haiyan to Global Warming – UN Summit Degenerates Into Unscientific Claims to Advance Political Agenda – Climate Depot Special Report ‘Extreme Weather Report: ‘Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is ‘unprecedented’ or a ‘new normal’

Slate Mag on the new population problem — UNDERPOPULATION! ‘And in the long term—on the order of centuries—we could be looking at the literal extinction of humanity’ 

Paging Ehrlich! Slate Mag: ‘About That Overpopulation Problem. Research suggests we may actually face a — declining world population in the coming years’  Climate Depot's Factsheet on Overpopulation – 'Is too few people the new 'population problem?'

PAUL EHRLICH BOMBS AGAIN: ‘In the more than four decades since The Population Bomb was published, the number of people inhabiting the Earth has more than doubled, but the death and poverty rates have dropped, and life expectancy has increased. Not only are we feeding more people than ever before, we’re doing it with less land’

Paging Paul Ehrlich! Fred Pearce on ‘The overpopulation myth’: ‘Population growth is slowing

Gore: Haiyan and Sandy-like storms are 'gamechanger' for public awareness of global warming - 'I think that these extreme weather events which are now a hundred times more common than 30 years ago are really waking people's awareness all over the world [on climate change], and I think that is a gamechanger.'

Reality Check: 

Scientists reject Sandy/Climate Link 

‘Least extreme U.S. weather year ever?’ 2013 shatters the record for fewest U.S. tornadoes

Scientists reject Typhoon Haiyan AGW Link

Extreme Weather Report 2012′: ‘Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is ‘unprecedented’ or a ‘new normal’

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Bill Gates 'warned that growing prosperity as a result of development efforts could worsen global warming emissions, if energy was not generated in a clean way. 'As the poorest are being lifted up, as they're getting lights and refrigerators, we are going to use more energy. There's not a scenario here where we use less energy. We have to make the energy we use not emit any greenhouse gases, particularly CO2.'

'As major emitters, these corporations are called climate culprits by environmentalists because their emissions have contributed to the accelerated warming of the planet. This warming has led to extreme weather events like freak typhoons, sweltering summers, droughts that threat food security, and storm surges that threaten humanity. "We as citizens have an obligation as well as a right to hold those companies directly responsible for destruction accountable. For far too long now, oil and gas companies have literally gotten away with murder," said Kumi Naidoo, Director of Greenpeace International.

Related Links; 

Climate Depot’s Morano At UN Press Conference in Warsaw Denounces Exploitation of Typhoon to ‘an unappreciative audience’: Morano ‘compared the belief that policy can change the weather to ‘medieval witchcraft’

UN Climate Summit Rejects Its Own Science – Links Typhoon Haiyan to Global Warming – UN Summit Degenerates Into Unscientific Claims to Advance Political Agenda – Climate Depot Special Report

Pielke Jr.: 'There is even evidence in our paper (see our Figure 2) that the period before 1970 saw more intense hurricane landfalls than the period since. Older data from the North Atlantic and Western North Pacific (which together represents 64% of all global intense landfalling hurricanes 1970-2010 and 69% of all hurricanes) indicates that landfalling intense hurricanes in these two basins occurred at a 40% higher rate from 1950-1969 than 1970-2010. There were 9 intense landfalls in 1964 and 1965 in just these two basins, which equals the global record for all basins post-1970.