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Super typhoons to increase in strength with climate change
2015-05-30 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Stuff: A warming planet is already stoking the intensity of tropical cyclones in the north-west Pacific and their ferocity will continue to increase even with moderate climate change over this century, an international research team has found. A study covering 850 typhoons in the region found the intensity of the damaging storms has increased by about 10 per cent since the 1970s, said Wei Mei, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and...
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Typhoons Moving Toward Poles, Scientists Say
2014-05-14 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Tropical storms appear headed for the Poles, peaking in ferocity at successively higher latitudes over the past three decades, according to a new study in the journal Nature. elated: "Hurricanes 101.") Climate scientists generally predict that tropical storms (called hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones, depending on the ocean where they form) will increase in power but decline in frequency in coming decades due to global warming. But the storms also appear to be on the move-driven by warmer oceans...
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Up to seven typhoons will hit Hong Kong this year Observatory says
2014-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
South China Morning Post: Hong Kong residents should brace themselves for between four and seven typhoons this year, local meteorologists have warned. The Observatory itself is also girding up for a trying time, because of increasingly unpredictable or extreme weather brought about by climate change. Freak conditions around the world in recent months - severe flooding in Britain, extreme cold hitting North America and a record-breaking heatwave across Australia - signalled the uphill task ahead, Observatory director...
After Typhoons Devastation, a Philippine Town Is Losing Those Who Could Rebuild It
2014-02-03 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As Jesse Siozon waited for his grandfather's funeral to begin, beneath the orange and blue tarps that serve as the roof for the storm-damaged Santo Nio Church, he spoke of a double loss. His grandfather may well have been the last person in this bedraggled city to succumb to injuries and illnesses brought on by Typhoon Haiyan. And now Mr. Siozon, a 30-year-old nurse, is being forced to leave Tacloban, his family's hometown for four generations, because efforts to rebuild have stalled and jobs...
Filipino Agriculture Sector up in 2013 Despite Typhoons
2014-01-28 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
PHILIPPINES - With poultry, palay, and a host of other key subsectors posting healthy growth rates, agriculture in the Philippines managed to expand by a respectable 1.15 per cent from January to December last year, notwithstanding the series of natural catastrophes that hit the country during the period.
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