Tag: adaptation
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I was in Zamboanga City the night before Yolanda (Haiyan) was forecasted to make landfall in Tacloban City. I was having dinner with a DRR Specialist who is also the designated agency Security Officer in the area. I had arrived from Manila that afternoon and he wanted us to meet and discuss arrangements during my…
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The reality of living in the middle of the Pacific Ring of Fire has become more and more a nightmare. If only all Filipinos could migrate to Earth’s twin Planet X! Source: Fano, Jerry Austria. Establishment of Philippine Flood Risk Index by Province Based on Natural and Social Factors. Emergency Transport If the trillions of…
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Independent studies of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration’s (PAGASA) modeled these projections in the country’s climate regimes for the years 2020 and 2050: A rise in mean annual temperature by about 0.9 ºC to 1.4 ºC for 2020 and 1.7 ºC to 2.4 ºC by 2050; With time, dry season from March…
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Last time I was on the road in Mountain Trail (known to non-natives as Halsema Highway) or ventured beyond Mankayan (in Benguet Province) seemed ages ago in 2002. I was able to return only last year in November when I went up to picturesque Bontoc (capital town of Mountain Province) for work. That time, observing…
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The UNFCCC 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) starts November 7 until the 18th in Marrakech. In this time, nationally determined contributions (NDCs) or pledges, which set out how countries will address climate change which were submitted to the 2015 Paris Agreement, will be fine-tuned. According to Carbon Brief, NDCs fall short in achieving the…
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A sure topic of interest in the DRR, CC, and Urban Management communities is climate change-induced diaspora. In the Philippines, that would be the Haiyan disaster which was the first (and hopefully, last) event that saw massive displacement and exodus. Up until now it’s been Maldives as the island to watch for. But who knew…
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I am familiar with the localities in the path of Haiyan. These were program areas supported by my former employer, where our field offices were. So when Haiyan was battering these areas my first thought was with former colleagues there and of course the communities I had visited and locals whom I knew. Eastern Samar,…
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Earth’s average global surface temperature is increasing. It has risen about 1ºF in the last century and is expected to go up another 3 to 11ºF in the next 100 years. This climate change has been dubbed “Global Warming”. Although the magnitude of warming may seem insignificant, many natural processes have been profoundly affected. For…
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From The Economist: Melting sea ice will not affect global sea levels, because floating ice displaces its own mass in seawater. But melting glaciers will, and the Arctic’s are shedding ice at a great rate. Greenland’s ice cap is losing an estimated 200 gigatonnes of ice a year, enough to supply a billion people with…