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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Another weather problem

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN OPENED TO HOUSE ALL SORTS OF ISSUES ABOUT SERIOUS WORLD EVENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGES, IT IS OPEN ALSO FOR DISCUSSION TO THE PUBLIC, SO ANYBODY CAN COMMENT ON IT, IF AND WHEN THEY HAVE SOMETHING USEFUL TO SAY.
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Welcome to our blog, global warnings
and this post, another weather problem
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Another weather problem
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This is photo of Cyclone Winston, as seen on Google news the 20th of February 2016

© Provided by ABC News A NASA satellite image of cyclone Winston near Tonga in the Pacific Ocean on February 17

Today's weather problems

I have to say that I am usually watching the weather these days, perhaps more than I should do, but, you see, the weather effects our ways of living every day of our lives. At this very moment in Brisbane Australia, it has been hot more than usual, and when it is hot and humid it is hard even to have a good night sleep. This heat wave that is lasting for so long, it is very likely due to the facts of global warming and this worries me a lot, as I can see for myself that the temperature is steadily going us every year; what will it be in a few years we may wonder. But the heat waves are only one side of the problem, because I have just found in the news that there is another problem just happening, a huge and powerful cyclone is lashing the Fiji’s and some people are running for their lives; this is the report and I quote.

Hundreds of evacuation centres have been activated as a powerful category five cyclone lashes Fiji's outer islands, with hurricane-force winds of up to 220 kilometres per hour.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston is heading westward and has already hit areas in the Lau group of islands as it tracks towards more populated areas.
The cyclone was about 175 kilometres north-east of Suva, the capital, at 1:00 pm (local time), travelling at 25 kilometres per hour
The storm was carrying average winds of 230 kilometres per hour, with gusts of up to 325 kilometres per hour, Fiji's Meteorological Service said.
Virgin Australia and Jetstar have both cancelled services in and out of the country.
Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama urged Fijians to prepare themselves for what he described as a "terrible event".
"We cannot afford to be complacent," he said.
"And I am especially concerned that some people in urban areas of the country in particular do not appear to have heeded the warnings about the seriousness of the threat we all face."
Forecasters say there is a chance the cyclone will whip up very strong wind gusts around the capital.
"That is a possibility that we cannot eliminate right now, that is the reason for us issuing a hurricane warning in terms of swells and heavy rain," Fiji meteorologist Misaeli Funaki told the ABC.
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Having said all this, now this question arise are these two things due to global warming, and if so, can humanity do something to minimize these terrible events, or is it going to become worse, before we try harder to do something about it.
This is a view of a simple minded old man, that would like to see something positive done.
I hope you will understand my point of view.

That is all for this post, see you next time when I find something else to say.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Just another meeting

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN OPENED TO HOUSE ALL SORTS OF ISSUES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGES, IT IS OPEN ALSO FOR DISCUSSION TO THE PUBLIC, SO ANYBODY CAN COMMENT ON IT, IF AND WHEN THEY HAVE SOMETHING USEFUL TO SAY.
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Welcome to our blog, Nature warnings
and this post, Just another meeting
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JUST ANOTHER MEETING
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We like our planet earth and we would like to keep it healthy forever: But I am a bit worried about this global warming, because we have meetings after meetings, but we don't seem to reach a good solution.

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Just another meeting

Dear readers, this is again about global warming, I believe that we all would like to have our say. Anyhow what I would like to say here is that, it seems to me that the world leaders have many meeting and will continue to meet in the hope that one day they will be able to do something about it. So, I am looking forward to see what this next meeting that I am reporting here under could achieve, I hope that they can do something better that other meeting that have happened in the past. Anyhow this is the report and I quote:

The December’s UN climate change Summit (COP 21), is around the corner. On 7-8 December 2015, 196 countries will gather to decide whether or not to commit to a low carbon future in a legally binding way.

It is not a chance that climate negotiations are taking place just a few months after other important negotiations on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. Without addressing climate change, extreme poverty cannot be eradicated and sustainable development cannot be delivered.

In the energy access space, the development leaders at COP 21 will advocate for further investments to be unlocked to support the development of a low-carbon economy. However, as of today, such investments only target large government-led infrastructure projects.

While this is absolutely needed, in practice it only marginally helps the expansion of energy access in off-grid areas, where most of the world’s poor live (620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa only). Achieving universal access to electricity requires a combination of grid-based and off-grid solutions.

In fact, nearly 60% of the additional generation required to achieve universal electricity access needs to come from off-grid solutions – both stand-alone and mini-grids. This is the domain of small and medium-sized enterprises that use distributed energy technologies. And these are the businesses that GVEP supports.

Like the businesses that we work with, our voice in international debates and meetings, such as the Paris one, can seem rather small. Yet on the ground our impact is tangible: 11.7 million people are enjoying improved access to clean energy due to the growth of these businesses.

With a market-based approach they are delivering energy to unserved and poor communities and collectively they are contributing to the development of a low-carbon economy.

End of report.

Looking at the report, it seems obvious that we all together need to do something positive, in order to improve the climatic situation, so let us keep our finger crossed and hope for a good solution.

This is all for this post, see you in our next post, which will be again about something to do with the climate change that continues to go on.

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NATURE WARMING

Just another meeting
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Friday, November 13, 2015

Mother Nature Reconciliation

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN OPENED TO HOUSE ALL SORTS OF ISSUES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGES, IT IS OPEN ALSO FOR DISCUSSION TO THE PUBLIC, SO ANYBODY CAN COMMENT ON IT, IF AND WHEN THEY HAVE SOMETHING USEFUL TO SAY.
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Welcome to our blog of, mother Nature warning
and this post, Mother Nature reconciliation
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This photo shows us the way of how it works, well it is not easy to understand it at first sight, so we are going to describe it better as soon as we have time.

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Mother Nature Reconciliation

WE ALL LOVE MOTHER NATURE
We must love Mother Nature because we are part of her, if we did not love her then we would not be able to love ourselves, because Mother Nature is every living thing, and this includes us most of all.

Help Planet Earth

MOTHER NATURE CHALLENGE

Dear readers, today I have decided to have another go at my preferred subject; well perhaps I should say that it is not exactly my preferred subject; but it is a subject that the entire world should be looking at. In the past I have already written several post about global warming and some people seemed to have some interest in what I wrote, but then I let it go and I have written some other stuff; anyhow, I believe that it could be worth coming back to it and have another go.

Therefore, I have decided to go back to the beginning and review what I have already written in our previous posts; so if it seems that you have already heard from me about it, it is because I am editing my old post and adding something new to them as well, in the hope that my posts bring the right massage to the people. So in the past we started by saying that, we the people of this earth are taking great risks, we are doing so many things that are harming Mother Nature, so, if we are not careful we will soon pay dearly about our mistakes, because we are damaging many natural things whereby mother nature could have been able to make good again the damage we have been doing, if we continue to do that the entire planet earth may end up like a desert.

This is how the whole planet earth could be like in the future.
If we care about our-self and the coming generations we need do something positive to help this harmful situation, don't you agree?

GLOBAL WARMING
Global warming is the name that should make us think hard what we are doing to this planet, we need to pay more attention to everything that harms the natural environment.
You might say that something is being done already, since there will be a meeting of world leaders soon: but I would like to see more interest from the people themselves, after all democratic leaders have to follow the people to get voted in.
So, here is the chance to express your views on this subject, please use it?

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN CREATED TO INVITE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO TAKE PART IN USEFUL DISCUSSIONS, WHICH COULD HELP SOLVE FUTURE MAN MADE NATURAL DISASTERS.

We hope that we have started a blog, which should be able to interest all the people on this planet earth. So maybe this is the right way to go, I am very interested about this subject, so, I am going to follow it closely and post many posts, as it is very important for the whole world to take part in discussions about the changes that are happening to our environment. So, let us hope that someone is interested to discuss these issues openly, or at least read about them, so that we may have a feedback from the public. Anyhow we just have to wait and see what happens?
As we have said at the beginning, we must love Mother Nature because we are part of her, if we did not love her then we would not be able to love ourselves, because Mother Nature is every living thing on this planet earth, and this includes us most of all.
But we should never forget to Help Planet Earth

MOTHER NATURE CHALLENGE
Nowadays, we the people of this earth are taking great risks, we are doing so many things that are harming Mother Nature, so, if we are not careful we will soon pay dearly, because we are damaging many things whereby mother nature could have been able to make good again the damage we have done.

This is how the whole planet earth could be like?
If we care about our-self and the coming generations we need do something positive to help this harmful situation, don't you agree?

GLOBAL WARMING
Global warming is the name that should make us think hard what we are doing to this planet, we need to pay more attention to everything that harms the natural environment.
You might say that something is being done, since there will be a meeting of world leaders soon: but I would like to see more interest from the people themselves, after all democratic leaders have to follow the people to get voted in.

After this old meeting of years ago;
• Lenore Taylor, Copenhagen
• From: The Australian
• December 09, 2009 7:45AM

UNDERLYING tensions between rich and poor nations at the Copenhagen climate negotiations have boiled to the surface with the leaking of a "secret" draft agreement prepared by the Danish host government and a select "circle of commitment" including Kevin Rudd.
The leaked document rocked the United Nations conference as it settled down to its first full day of talks, with developing countries expressing outrage at its contents, and at the fact that it had been developed behind closed doors by the so-called “friends” of the Danish conference chair, Mr Rudd, UN secretary Ban Ki Moon and leaders from other countries including the UK, Sweden, Mexico.
The Danish Government protested that there was no “secret draft for a new Copenhagen Agreement” but rather “many working papers used for testing various positions”.
Privately negotiators were furious that developing nations had resorted to such a “hostile act” because they were nervous about possible outcomes in a final climate deal.
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But despite the hosts' attempts to hose down the leak, it has ignited tensions that were not expected to spark until the top-level leaders segment of the talks next week.
Despite all the controversy, the draft “Copenhagen Agreement” contains many elements of a strong political deal, although it leaves blank critical emission reduction commitments and the amounts to be paid into new funding for developing countries for final determination.

This is only part of the report.
As we all can see from this it is not going to be an easy task for the world leaders. We can only hope that before the meeting ends they agree on something useful, which could help achieve at least part of the problem?

Anyhow, this is what we are going to say in this post, but in the future we will continue to review and edit our previous post, so that once we have finished updating them, we will be able to continue on this subject and what is happening at the present time.

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HELP PLANET EARTH
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

My new way of thinking

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Welcome to our blog of Mother Nature warning
and this post, my new way of thinking
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New way of thinking

Dear readers, it has been a while since I posted in this blog of Mother Nature challenge, but now I would like to resume my activities and write some more articles about these issues; I know that sometimes we the people behave in a strange way and so do I; Anyhow, strange as it may seem, when people have nothing much to say to each other, they talk about the weather, but when it is necessary to talk about the weather, because the weather is causing problems in the entire world, they just keep postponing those discussions indefinitely; the point that I would like to make here is that we need to discuss a lot more about the weather problems; because every time that something terrible happens we want to do something about it, a while ago I started to write this blog, I have always the intention of writing something about the climatic change that is taking place in the world, now because I want to do that, I am looking for news that would serve to highlight this issue. So today I have found in the news this article about this cyclone in the Philippines, here under is a photo that shows some people straggling to save themselves.

Here under is the report that I found on the internet and I quote;

CABANATUAN, Philippines (AP) — Army, police and civilian volunteers rushed Monday to rescue hundreds of villagers trapped in their flooded homes and on rooftops in a northern Philippine province battered by slow-moving Typhoon Koppu, officials said.

The typhoon blew ashore into northeastern Aurora province early Sunday, leaving at least 11 dead, forcing more than 65,000 villagers from their homes, and leaving nine provinces without electricity. By Monday afternoon, Koppu had weakened into a tropical storm over Ilocos Norte province with winds of 105 kilometers (65 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 135 kph (84 mph).
Several of the affected provinces, led by Nueva Ecija, were inundated by floods that swelled rivers and cascaded down mountains, trapping villagers in their homes, said Nigel Lontoc of the Office of Civil Defense.
"There were people who got trapped by the flood on their roofs, some were rescued already," Vice Mayor Henry Velarde of Nueva Ecija's Jaen town told The Associated Press by telephone, adding that about 80 percent of 27 villages in his farming town of more than 45,000 people were inundated by flood.

When a flooded river swamped the villages, residents scrambled to safety but many failed to save their poultry and farm animals. Out of more than 5,000 ducks, for example, only about 1,000 were saved and many rice crops ready to be harvested in a few weeks turned into a muddy waste, he said.

"Our rice farms looked like it was ran over by a giant flat iron," Velarde said. "All the rice stalks were flattened in one direction."

Hundreds of soldiers, police and volunteers have converged on Nueva Ecija, a landlocked, rice-growing province in the heart of Luzon island, to help villagers whose homes had been flooded, said Lontoc.
Erwin Jacinto, a 37-year-old resident of Nueva Ecija's Santa Rosa town, said the flooding turned his farmland into "nothing but mud."
Jacinto spoke from atop a high bridge where dozens of farmers stayed in the open overnight with their families, and their pigs, goats and chickens.

At least 11 people have died. One man was buried by a landslide while checking his farm on Sunday in the mountain town of Bakun in Benguet province. Two men drowned in Nueva Ecija, while a 14-year-old boy was killed when a tree branch fell on his family's shanty in suburban Quezon city in metropolitan Manila.

Seven people died when a passenger motorboat capsized in bad weather in the central Philippines, but the government's disaster-response agency has not included the deaths in the typhoon toll because the central region was not directly affected by the storm.

President Benigno Aquino III, who flew to Nueva Ecija to check the flooding and distribute food packs in an emergency shelter, said the typhoon's unusually slow speed allowed it to batter the north for about three days instead of just a few hours.

Rain dumped by the typhoon in the north may rampage through rivers late Monday to Tuesday and put at risk about 800 downstream villages, where residents have been urged not to return home. "They think it is safe already to go back to their communities but we are preventing them right now," Aquino told reporters.

Koppu, Japanese for "cup," is the 12th storm this year to hit the Philippines, which averages 20 storms and typhoons each year.

In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan leveled entire towns in the central Philippines and left more than 7,300 people dead or missing.

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Associated Press writers Jim Gomez, Teresa Cerojano and Oliver Teves in Manila contributed to this report.

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Anyhow, what I would like to point out here is that we need to keep in mind these world problems that the expert say they arise from global warming, therefore we need to talk about them more often, in the hope that one day we may find a solution.

I believe that I have said enough in this post, so see you in our next post when I find time to write it.

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Mother Nature Challenge
my new way of thinking
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Friday, August 7, 2015

What is climatic change?

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Welcome to out blog, nature warning
and this post, what is climatic change.
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This shows you what we are talking about
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What is climatic change?

Here we would like to point out that we have pointed this out a while ago, but today we are going to repeat it, because we feel that very few people seem to know the danger that we are facing.

It seems to me that we still do not know what to do to take care of our planet earth, so these questions arise: What is climate change? What are today's problems? Let us look at them?
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What are today's problems?
What is climate change?
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Climate change is the greatest threat facing our planet. Humans are causing climate change, and humans can stop it getting worse. We can keep our planet healthy for future generations by acting on climate change now.
What’s causing the problem?
Humans are causing climate change by adding huge amounts of carbon dioxide (C02) and other greenhouse polluting gases to our atmosphere. The biggest source of greenhouse pollution is burning fossil fuels (like coal and oil) for energy.

Why is the planet warming?
Earth is wrapped in a delicately balanced ‘blanket’ of gases. Like a greenhouse in a garden, this insulating layer traps heat from the sun, and sustains life.
Human activities (like burning coal and oil) are adding huge amounts of greenhouse pollution to the atmosphere. The pollution stays in the atmosphere for many decades. Greenhouse pollution is making Earth’s ‘blanket’ unnaturally thick, and this is heating up the planet. This is commonly called global warming. The heat trap is also causing many unusual and dangerous changes to our climate and weather systems, best described as climate change.

Climate change and you
Australia is particularly vulnerable to climate change – environmentally and economically. We already live on the driest inhabited continent on earth. Climate change is making most of Australia drier. We are already experiencing more severe droughts in the bush, and water shortages in our cities.
Climate change is bad for our economy, and bad for our individual hip-pockets. In 2009, Victoria faced some of the worst Bushfires on record. Professor David Karoly from the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences discusses how the record heatwaves and prolonged drought prior to the February 2009 bushfires in Victoria could be linked directly to climate change.
We can stop climate change, but only by making major reductions in the amount of greenhouse pollution we create. To cut pollution, we need to drastically change the way we use and produce energy.
Individuals, businesses and governments need to become much more energy efficient and stop wasting energy. And we need to move to clean, renewable sources of energy.
Renewable energy is available now, safe for the environment and good for our economy. By dealing with climate change, we can make Australia a world leader in renewable energy and create thousands of jobs and new exports.
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What are today’s problems?
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Take a look at the devastation left behind by Haiyan - one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded.

http://publicreligiousforum.yolasite.com

Sunday, July 20, 2014

The face of death

The face of death and destruction

This is a photo from the Philippines showing the destruction that Typhoon Haiyan has left behind, it is an issue that the entire world should take part and while we help them, we should thing about what could have been done to prevent that happening

The typhoon face of destruction

Death can come from everywhere at anytime, but death to come to so many people in a very short time is frightening, and it is even more frightening when you see the danger approaching and you cannot do anything about it, you would be scared and terrified to death and yet you must face the danger no matter what happens; this is how the people of Tacloban city must have felt when Typhoon Haiyan was approaching, perhaps they hoped and prayed God with all their heart, hoping that the typhoon would pass over them without destroying them, but their prayers and hopes did not help very much, see the destruction in this photo here above what Typhoon Haiyan left behind: it left complete destruction and death.

It is very disturbing to see this destruction and death; the authorities already estimate that there are 10 thousand dead people or more, 9 millions of people affected of these 4 millions are children; at this point of time the entire world should come together and try to help those people that have survived the destruction, it all seems so unreal, it seems as if it is the end of the world, it is a disaster of apocalyptic dimension. I suppose that we are all sorry for the people of the Philippines that have suffered this great disaster and we cannot help to think whether these Typhoons have become more violent because of the global warming affect. Therefore we should ask ourselves whether this disaster could have been less severe, if the global warming effect were not present.

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The face of despair of the survivors

What are those people here looking for, they seem so unreal, they must be waiting for help or for a miracle. This is how the super Typhoon Haiyan left the survivors of the Philippines

The face of despair

The face of despair after Typhoon Haiyan

Look at this photo, these people face can tell you all; they are all scared to death, they have survived the super typhoon disaster, but now they are scared about their future as they have nothing except the cloths they are wearing, their houses have been destroyed, so they have nowhere to go to, they must be asking themselves, we have survived, but what is going to happen to us next?

Here are some links that we have pasted to keep this record, let us hope they work:

· Defrocked Sydney priest among dead after typhoon

· Typhoon most terrifying on record

· World's most powerful storm hits Philippines

And now let us see what this Typhoon looked like from above:

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Typhoon Haiyan face

This is how the super Typhoon Haiyan looked like from above

The face of the super Typhoon Haiyan

This is a photo of the super Typhoon Haiyan seen from the satellite above; it is huge that the only thing one could say, they say that it is over 500 Km in diameter, just look at the Horizon and see the round shape of the earth, is seems as if it covers most of the earth; it seems threatening even that far away and it makes you wonder how would the people have felt when they were struck from its huge force, these violent weather events seems to happen more often these days, because of the global warming effect, at least be believe that it is the global warming; anyhow we have already said this before in another article and this is the link to check it out; Concerned citizen views

As the inhabitants of this planet earth, we need to be concerned because these violent weather events are increasing, sometimes wet and violent and sometimes dry and hot, they are becoming extreme, so we hope that some people that have studied this weather problem come up with some suggestions about what could be done.

Today we are talking about Typhoon Haiyan and the damage it has done in the Philippines, but the life of this typhoon is not finished as it is heading now to Vietnam.

This is just another photo from the Typhoon Haiyan disaster, there is not much that one could say, just look at the photo, is says it all.

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Just another photo of the disaster

This is just another photos that shows the disaster that super Typhoon Haiyan left behind.

Typhoon Haiyan has reached Vietnam

Today the 12^th of November 2013 super Typhoon Haiyan has reached Vietnam, but it has lost intensity, it seems that there are already a few dead in Vietnam, but we all hope that there will not be any more loss of life, so things might be starting to turn normal, as the typhoon continues to lose intensity We will continue to follow the typhoon and we will come back to talk about the outcome. But for the time being we can look back at what has happened in the Philippines, if we click on these links below,

PHOTO: Typhoon Haiyan packed winds of about 120 kilometres an hour as it hit northern Vietnam. (AFP)

VIDEO: Zoe Daniel reports from recovering Philippines(7.30)

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The face of death

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