Agence France-Presse: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Tuesday that the deadly typhoon disaster in the Philippines should put an end to "silly" arguments denying climate change. "If you think of the number of storms that have hit over the past year, the severity of those storms... The frequency of these events is increasing and that's exactly what the climate change scientists have predicted," Mr Kim said. "What I hope the tragedy in the Philippines helps us to do is to move away from having what I think are silly...