Global warming is ocean warming and warmer oceans mean bigger storms

And it is clear that global warming means more frequent devastating storms and weather events. The low lying areas of the world are going to take the brunt of the damage. Places like the Phillipines, the Maldives, Bangladesh, the Mekong Delta, Florida and New Orleans. The question remains when will the people around the planet recognize the absolute necessity of the most fundamental change, the development and implementation of a global response, the retooling of the neoliberal capitalism model to a just and egalitarian development model?

It’s been a long time coming, but I know that change is going to come.

clipped from www.google.com Typhoon Parma kills 15 in the Philippines MANILA — Large parts of the northern Philippines were flooded and without power on Sunday after Typhoon Parma killed at least 15 people, as authorities warned of another storm looming to the east. Exactly one week after storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rains in more than 40 years that devastated Manila, killing nearly 300 people, Parma ripped through the north of the Philippines’ main Luzon island on Saturday. Many areas in the north remained blacked out and cut off from communication on Sunday as Parma left the country and hovered over the South China Sea. Roads were submerged or littered with fallen trees and toppled power lines. The state weather bureau warned of more misery as Typhoon Melor, monitored about 600 kilometres (370 miles) to the east, was expected to enter Philippine maritime territory by Monday afternoon before blowing north to eastern China or Japan.

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