Climate impacts 'overwhelming' - UN

[Terpe]

Scientists fear a growing impact of global warming on humans


Source:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26810559

[Steve.r]

I am lucky if I can see the sun some days here

[les_taxi]

Nowt we can do. China and India won't alter their plans and will pollute for many years to come.

[Terpe]

I am lucky if I can see the sun some days here

Is that smog Steve?

[Michael Parnham]

We were warned about global warming in geography class at school In the 1950's, the damage London smog was doing also the Amazon rain forest being stripped at the rate of the size of a football field every minute and what the outcome will be in the next 100 years, it's already happening!

[gWaPito]

'We expect catastrophe' – Manila, the megacity on the climate frontline

IPCC report warns life in the Filipino capital and other coastal cities will get much worse in many ways as temperatures rise.

Joshua Alvarez and his family fear for their lives when the monsoon rains come. Last August their two-bedroom flat in Manila was flooded when severe tropical storm Trami dumped 15 inches of rain (380mm) in a few hours and the local reservoir overflowed. They fled to a flyover with thousands of others as five large areas of the capital were inundated with muddy waters up to three metres deep and a state of calamity was declared in three Philippine provinces.
In 2012, typhoon Haikui battered the megacity of 12 million people for eight days, but when tropical storm Ondoy hit Manila in 2009 and a month's worth of rain fell in a few hours, the city came close to catastrophe. Nearly 80% was flooded, 246 people died and hundreds of thousands had to be evacuated.


Manila, he says, is already several degrees warmer than surrounding areas in the day and is stifling at night because of the urban heat-island effect, which releases the heat stored in concrete, roads and buildings at night. "A 4C rise in temperature will make life unbearable and air conditioning an absolute necessity," he said.
Edna Mendoza stands with her daughter at the door of their home as they clean up the mud and debris from the floods in Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Posadas, who has moved his family out of the city for health reasons, says climate change will hit the poorest hardest. "Tens of thousands of people in Manila live in shanty towns that are in the way of the floods. These people will be the most vulnerable. What the IPCC report means is that those areas that are not already flooded when it rains heavily will be in future. Everything will become more extreme. Subsidence will be exacerbated, high temperatures will become unbearable. These days 32C (90F) is common and lots of people still do not have fridges – so food will go off. Climate change will slow down economic growth, further erode food security, trigger new poverty traps and create hotspots of hunger."


Dante Dalabajan, Oxfam's programme co-ordinator in Mindanao, who worked on the Yolanda emergency, said: "The danger is that Filipinos will be trapped in a vicious cycle where the more the planet heats up the more they adopt the technologies they think will help, but will actually exacerbate the problems. The potential for epidemics in cities is huge. You cannot just evacuate millions of people."
Alvarez said: "We expect catastrophe now. But what can we do? We don't need the scientists to tell us any more that we are vulnerable. We just need help. We can see what is happening. We would all move if we could, but we are trapped."

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...-cities-manila

[jake]

[h=1]
Alvarez said: "We expect catastrophe now. But what can we do? We don't need the scientists to tell us any more that we are vulnerable. We just need help. We can see what is happening.[B] We would all move if we could, but we are trapped.

Nothing will change if they all have that attitude
There are plenty of things the ordinary filipino living in Manila or elsewhere can do to slow down global warming.

[les_taxi]

Right let's all get rid of cars, planes factories.
Tell the developing countries to stop and go back to horse and cart.
We are only borrowing this planet.
Will be pile of dust one day when sun goes boom.
I'm feeling really cheerful todsy lol