Typhon Maysak to unsettle the Philippines

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ecently is was Vanuatu being levelled by Cyclone Pam and now the Philippines are be stalked by Typhoon Maysak.

Some argue that what we are seeing it simply “natural variability” and others attribute these rather trying weather events directly to the damage humans have caused to the atmosphere and consequently the world’s climate.

Scientific evidence illustrates that humans, that’s you and I, have indisputably changed the world’s climate resulting in notably different, and significantly severe, weather events.

Cyclone Pam was one of those major weather events and Typhoon Maysak is similar, although it is likely to be less intense.

An ABC story - “Typhoon Maysak: Philippines braces for possible landslides and storm surges across Easter weekend” – says: “Maysak, initially a top-rated category five typhoon, has weakened to category four as it lost strength over the water.”

Bandaid solutions are not enough - Jane McAdam

Jane McAdam - bandaid solutions
 are not enough.

Writing after Cyclone Pam, Jane McAdam has warned that bandaid solutions to natural disasters are simply not enough.

She said in today’s Melbourne Age that it is time to be pro-active pointing out that the cost of inaction will be much higher.

In her story - “Climate change brings disasters on steroids” – she writes: “Climate change-related displacement is happening now.  It is not just a future phenomenon. Reportedly 45 per cent of Tuvalu's population has been displaced by Cyclone Pam. More frequent and more intense extreme weather events are consistent with climate change: disasters become disasters on steroids.”

Vanuatu 'monster' was climate change - president

A “monster” that hit Vanuatu has been attributed to climate change.

Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale -
it's climate change.

The island nation’s President Baldwin Lonsdale, has described the category five cyclone Pam as ‘a monster that has hit Vanuatu’, wiping out development.

Speaking after Cyclone Pam ripped through his nation, President Lonsdale said climate change was contributing to more extreme weather conditions and cyclone seasons.

President Lonsdale told a United Nations world conference in Sendai, Japan, on Monday, that the storm was a major setback for the people, virtually wiping out Vanuatu’s development.

A story in The Guardian headed: “Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu's president blames climate change for extreme weather” told of the storm.