Climate change to bring more intense tropical storms. A study by the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has analyzed four years of peer-reviewed research on the ocean storms that are known as hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in Asia.
Using a mid-range forecast of 2.8-degrees Celsius temperature rise for global warming, the WMO research forecast future storms with more powerful winds and higher amounts of rainfall.
Moreover, some areas would likely see big jumps in the number of severe weather patterns.
The WMO also reported that these findings were consistent with ones published in 2007 by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, noting the likelihood of more intense cyclones, with additional rainfall and higher wind speeds.
United Nations World Meteorological Organization scientists, we sincerely appreciate your careful work that alerts the public to the likelihood of such perilous extreme weather.
Let us join in wholehearted efforts toward planet-protecting lifestyles to ensure a stable home for future generations. Expressing her concern as she has on many occasions for humanity’s plight, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke of such intensifying weather extremities during an August 2009 videoconference in Thailand.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: If we look around, we can see the growing frequencies and strength of disasters everywhere. Flood events worldwide are now three times higher than in the 1980s. In 2008, there were 40 category 5 storms, the most ever recorded including in the Atlantic, India and Bangladesh, and in the Philippines.
It takes just one category 4 or 5 storm to destroy a major city, just one.
These are truly almost always the consequences of humans’ violent actions. The number 1 action is meat eating. We can stop the disasters, make them go away for good, forever, if all of us switch to the organic vegan diet. Pray it be so.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/tropical-storms-to-be-more-intense-20100222-oo8z.html World environment ministers collaborate to curb climate change. Environment ministers and other dignitaries from 100 different countries reached a landmark agreement at a recent United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) conference held in Bali, Indonesia when they voted to integrate several existing accords to halt pollution and global warming.
Participants at the meeting, which was the largest since the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009, signed the Nusa Dua Declaration, which highlights the urgency of acting now to halt global warming as well as protect biodiversity and advance 'green economies.' UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner commended the accord, saying, “The ministers responsible for the environment have spoken with a clear, united and
unequivocal voice.”
Our heartfelt thanks, Executive Director Steiner, Your Excellencies, and United Nations Environment Program for your unwavering efforts to protect our planet at this vulnerable time.
May everyone embrace harmonious lifestyles that allow all beings on Earth to thrive.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/311451,governments-to-link-environmental-treaties-improve-effectiveness.html http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=478283 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33908&Cr=UNEP&Cr1= Extra NewsIn Âu Lạc (Vietnam) over 1,000 volunteers from universities and secondary schools around Hà Nội participate in a clean-up project to restore the natural environment of the Tô Lịch River.
http://www.dtinews.vn/news/environment/youths-volunteering-for-community.htmlThe African nations of Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Guinea unanimously adopt a plan to save their nations’ mangroves, which offer critical protection to coastal ecosystems.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100227-sierra-leone-takes-steps-save-mangroves http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=7795&cntnt01returnid=15With more than 50 people in France who lost their lives to recent storm Xynthia, environmentalists warn that coastal retaining walls are in urgent need of repair as more intense storms are anticipated with continued global warming.
http://www.thefreepress.ca/article/GB/20100303/CP10/303039879/-1/fernie/frances-crumbling-sea-walls-no-match-for-mother-nature-problem-made&template=cpArt http://www.physorg.com/news186839827.html The Yellow River Conservancy Commission of China is designated as the recipient of the 2010 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize for its decade of innovative contributions to water management for the nation’s second longest river.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1041265/1/.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6908053.html
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