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- Community-designed Filipino orphanage rises in the wake of typhoon disaster Wed, 24 Jan 18, 8:50pmIn November 2013, super-typhoon Haiyan battered the central Philippines and destroyed over four million households—including the NGO Streetlight’s orphanage, office, and study center...
- 6 Ways You Can Help Victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines Fri, 27 Dec 13, 3:52amINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS The International Medical Corps focuses on infection control and deployed a team of medical personnel and sanitation experts to respond immediately to the disaster...
- On green issues no one talks more 'crap' than David Cameron Fri, 22 Nov 13, 2:27am"Get rid of all the green crap" David Cameron has told his aides. According to today's Sun, at any rate. I'm sure Lynton Crosby will be delighted – even if Downing Street has subsequently issued a careful statement...
- Scientists Believe Typhoon Haiyan Released Massive Amounts of CO2 into the Atmosphere Tue, 19 Nov 13, 6:00amIn addition to wreaking incredible human devastation, Typhoon Haiyan is predicted to have unleashed a huge amount of carbon into the atmosphere. A group of scientists recently published a study in Environmental Research Letters...
- Was Typhoon Haiyan the Most Intense Storm in Modern History? Tue, 19 Nov 13, 2:51amGuest essay by Patrick J. Michaels Global warming buffs have been fond of claiming that the roaring winds of Typhoon Haiyan were the highest ever measured in a landfalling tropical cyclone, and that therefore (?) this is...
- Red Cross Maps Super Typhoon Haiyan’s Destruction to Show What Storms Do to Our Cities Sat, 16 Nov 13, 4:46amIt's been years since I've seen the movie Twister, but one of Helen Hunt's final lines haunts me to this day: “You haven’t seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you.” She's talking about the...
- Do climate sceptics really deserve to be executed because of Typhoon Haiyan? Fri, 15 Nov 13, 6:24amWhile I was away being Radley's Provocateur-in-Residence (yes, it went very well, thank you) someone calling himself Sai Gon Seamus (an expatriate Irishman living in Vietnam, I'm guessing) Tweeted this at me: @JamesDelingpole...
- Bjørn Lomborg on Haiyan/Yolanda Sun, 10 Nov 13, 10:35pmBjørn Lomborg writes on his Facebook page It is phenomenal. Climate campaigners like [John] Vidal in Guardian keeps arguing that the terrible typhoon Haiyan shows we need to do more about global warming. Yet, even *after*...
- Super Typhoon Haiyan, ‘…as intense as a tropical cyclone can get. ‘ Fri, 8 Nov 13, 8:38amPrepare yourselves for the second coming of Katrina, because you can bet that this storm will be hyped as an indicator of “global warming”...
- Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of strongest storms ever, heads for Philippines Fri, 8 Nov 13, 8:38amAbove: animation from IntelliWeather.com showing the last 12 hours of motion as of 1PM PST 11/7/13. – may take up to a minute to load and animate, depending on your connection speed. Prepare yourselves for the second...