Global warming threatens Cebu, Phillipines
Harry Hope
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=533151&publicationSubCategoryId=107
December 17, 2009
Global warming could sink Cebu
CEBU, Philippines -
Global warming and climate change threaten to submerge and wipe out
the whole of Cebu by 2020, the chairman of Typhoon Committee
Foundation, warned, as he called for the public to be aware of drastic
effects of calamities that may hit Philippines, specifically Cebu.
Angeo Palmones, chairman of the Typhoon Committee Foundation, Inc.
revealed this during yesterday�s Forum-Orientation on Typhoon, Flood,
and Climate Change held at the Cebu Institute of Technology
Auditorium.
.................................................................................................................
Palmones, a professor of University of the Philippines Diliman, and
the co-founder and first president of the Philippine Science
Journalists Association, Inc. said that they received a report from
Greenpeace Southeast Asia stating that because of the impact of
climate change, rise in local sea levels, and receding coastlines
could flood and submerge the entire Cebu.
...................................................................................................................
Palmones added that because of the dramatic melting of the polar ice
cap and the melting glaciers and land-based ice sheets, they also
contribute to rising sea levels, threatening low-lying areas around
the globe with beach erosion, coastal flooding, and contamination of
freshwater supplies.
He continued that if bioengineering intervention won�t be implemented,
flooding in Cebu will be �unimaginable�.
�The rate of glacier ice melting, precipitation, deforestation, and
land degradation which causes landslide, soil erosion, and the
increased siltation of the river system will contribute to the rise of
the water sea level.
He furthered that natural threats such as pollutants will increase the
precipitation of water, thus more water are collected, increasing the
water sea level.
�It�s a cycle, when you alter the natural resources, there�s in an
increase in precipitation and it will cause flooding,� he said.
Palmones told The Freeman that based on the Green peace Southeast Asia
report, the top ten provinces vulnerable to one-meter sea level rise
are Sulu, Palawan, Zamboanga, Northern Samar, Zamboanga Sibugay,
Basilan, Cebu, Davao, Bohol, and Camarines Sur.
The top ten regions which are reportedly to sink are ARMM, Region 9,
Region 4B, 8, 5, 7, 6, 11, 4A, and Region 1.
He said that people should not sidestep the issue on global warming
and called the people to make global warming more of a personal
concern.
�Ang mga tao walang pakialam sa mga masasamang naidudulot ng climate
change, at kung darating na ang mga sakuna, wala silang ibang
sisisihin kung hindi ang gobyerno,� he retorted.
Palmones concluded that a climate change and global warming should be
included in the curriculum in every academic institution.
He also emphasized that planting trees, reforestation, and the lawful
compliance of the environmental conservation should be top priorities.
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the
Earth�s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its
projected continuation.
According to Greenpeace Southeast Asia, in the Philippines, a
one-meter rise in sea level, for example, is projected to affect 64
out of 81 provinces.
From 1961 to 2003, the waters around the archipelago rose by 1.8
millimeter every year.
A study made by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and
Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) also showed that coastal
areas in Navotas, Malabon, Cavite, Davao City and Legazpi City sank by
15 centimeters from 1970 to 1999.
The report also stated that other than the Philippines, which is at
risk of being swamped by rising levels of seawater as a result of
global warming, low-lying areas including Bangladesh, Vietnam,
Cambodia, Indonesia, and India also face catastrophic flooding as
polar ice caps may melt far faster under the pressure of global
warming.
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Harry
Bret Cahill
> http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=533151&publicationSubC...
>
> December 17, 2009
>
> Global warming could sink Cebu
>
> CEBU, Philippines -
>
> Global warming and climate change threaten to submerge and wipe out
> the whole of Cebu by 2020, the chairman of Typhoon Committee
> Foundation, warned, as he called for the public to be aware of drastic
> effects of calamities that may hit Philippines, specifically Cebu.
>
> Angeo Palmones, chairman of the Typhoon Committee Foundation, Inc.
> revealed this during yesterday’s Forum-Orientation on Typhoon, Flood,
> and Climate Change held at the Cebu Institute of Technology
> Auditorium.
>
>
> Palmones, a professor of University of the Philippines Diliman, and
> the co-founder and first president of the Philippine Science
> Journalists Association, Inc. said that they received a report from
> Greenpeace Southeast Asia stating that because of the impact of
> climate change, rise in local sea levels, and receding coastlines
> could flood and submerge the entire Cebu.
>
Denialgaters don't like these articles.
Bret Cahill
Last Post
>
>
> > He also emphasized that planting trees, reforestation, and the lawful
> > compliance of the environmental conservation should be top priorities.
>
>
> Denialgaters don't like these articles.
>
we definitely dislike bullshit propaganda
Last Post
On Dec 16, 10:11 pm, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=533151&publicationSubC...
> December 17, 2009
> Global warming could sink Cebu
> CEBU, Philippines -
>
> Global warming and climate change threaten to submerge and wipe out
> the whole of Cebu by 2020, the chairman of Typhoon Committee
> Foundation, warned, as he called for the public to be aware of drastic
> effects of calamities that may hit Philippines, specifically Cebu.
•• The Philippines have already had most of what
they can expect from our changing climates: 2
volcanos erupting, a tsunami, consecutive
typhoons, floods, etc
>
> Angeo Palmones, chairman of the Typhoon Committee Foundation, Inc.
> revealed this during yesterday’s Forum-Orientation on Typhoon, Flood,
> and Climate Change held at the Cebu Institute of Technology
> Auditorium.
> Palmones, a professor of University of the Philippines Diliman, and
> the co-founder and first president of the Philippine Science
> Journalists Association, Inc. said that they received a report from
> Greenpeace Southeast Asia stating that because of the impact of
> climate change, rise in local sea levels, and receding coastlines
> could flood and submerge the entire Cebu.
>
•• Palmiones needs to stay away from oufits like Greenpeace whose very
existence depends on storm, thunder and calamity.
•• Sea levels cannot rise "locally". The surge locally gets evened out
in a couple of tide changes globally.
> Palmones added that because of the dramatic melting of the polar ice
> cap and the melting glaciers and land-based ice sheets, they also
> contribute to rising sea levels, threatening low-lying areas around
> the globe with beach erosion, coastal flooding, and contamination of
> freshwater supplies.
•• None of that is happening anywhere in the world
>
> He continued that if bioengineering intervention won’t be implemented,
> flooding in Cebu will be “unimaginable”.
•• NONSENSE
>
> “The rate of glacier ice melting, precipitation, deforestation, and
> land degradation which causes landslide, soil erosion, and the
> increased siltation of the river system will contribute to the rise of
> the water sea level.
•• More propaganda nonsense.
>
> He furthered that natural threats such as pollutants will increase the
> precipitation of water, thus more water are collected, increasing the
> water sea level.
•• Nonsense!!! If he is speaking of CO2 as pollutant
why are we drinking Coca cola and fizzy waters?
>
> “It’s a cycle, when you alter the natural resources, there’s in an
> increase in precipitation and it will cause flooding,” he said.
•• That is more nonsense.
>
> Palmones told The Freeman that based on the Greenpeace Southeast Asia
> report, the top ten provinces vulnerable to one-meter sea level rise
> are Sulu, Palawan, Zamboanga, Northern Samar, Zamboanga Sibugay,
> Basilan, Cebu, Davao, Bohol, and Camarines Sur.
•• Except that is unlikely to happen in the next hundred thousand
years
>
> He also emphasized that planting trees, reforestation, and the lawful
> compliance of the environmental conservation should be top priorities.
•• Those are good things to do
f. barnes
It is analogous to the sob stories put out by illegal alien advocates.
buzz
> Excess Newsgroup trimmed
>
> On Dec 16, 10:11 pm, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=533151&publicationSubC...
>
>> December 17, 2009
>> Global warming could sink Cebu
>> CEBU, Philippines -
>>
>> Global warming and climate change threaten to submerge and wipe out
>> the whole of Cebu by 2020, the chairman of Typhoon Committee
>> Foundation, warned, as he called for the public to be aware of drastic
>> effects of calamities that may hit Philippines, specifically Cebu.
>
> they can expect from our changing climates: 2
> volcanos erupting, a tsunami, consecutive
> typhoons, floods, etc
>
>> Angeo Palmones, chairman of the Typhoon Committee Foundation, Inc.
>> and Climate Change held at the Cebu Institute of Technology
>> Auditorium.
>
>> Palmones, a professor of University of the Philippines Diliman, and
>> the co-founder and first president of the Philippine Science
>> Journalists Association, Inc. said that they received a report from
>> Greenpeace Southeast Asia stating that because of the impact of
>> climate change, rise in local sea levels, and receding coastlines
>> could flood and submerge the entire Cebu.
>>
> existence depends on storm, thunder and calamity.
>
> in a couple of tide changes globally.
>
>
>> Palmones added that because of the dramatic melting of the polar ice
>> cap and the melting glaciers and land-based ice sheets, they also
>> contribute to rising sea levels, threatening low-lying areas around
>> the globe with beach erosion, coastal flooding, and contamination of
>> freshwater supplies.
>
>> He continued that if bioengineering intervention won�t be implemented,
>> flooding in Cebu will be �unimaginable�.
>
> �� NONSENSE
>> �The rate of glacier ice melting, precipitation, deforestation, and
>> land degradation which causes landslide, soil erosion, and the
>> increased siltation of the river system will contribute to the rise of
>> the water sea level.
>
>> He furthered that natural threats such as pollutants will increase the
>> precipitation of water, thus more water are collected, increasing the
>> water sea level.
>
> why are we drinking Coca cola and fizzy waters?
>> increase in precipitation and it will cause flooding,� he said.
>
> �� That is more nonsense.
>> Palmones told The Freeman that based on the Greenpeace Southeast Asia
>> report, the top ten provinces vulnerable to one-meter sea level rise
>> are Sulu, Palawan, Zamboanga, Northern Samar, Zamboanga Sibugay,
>> Basilan, Cebu, Davao, Bohol, and Camarines Sur.
>
> years
>> He also emphasized that planting trees, reforestation, and the lawful
>> compliance of the environmental conservation should be top priorities.
>
Poor Hairy, he is a dedicated cool-aid drinker.
Barack Hussein Obama...MMM MMM MMM
Send HIM to Pakistan to fight Osama...MMM MMM MMM
Simple-minded dummycrats (the party that birthed the KKK) and
liberals...morons electing morons.
>
Catoni
it when Skeptics use opinionated articles from the popular
press and blogs.
So then...
Why is it okay for "comrade" Harry Hope to use opinionated
articles from the popular press?
Especially when it is such bullshit and utter idiotic Alarmist
lies like Harry Hope just posted above
Hint of hypocrisy? Hint of "Do as I say, not as I do" ?
Typical leftist assholes.
(Hey Harry.. is it true that you were given some kind of award by
the old
Soviet Committee for State Security ?)
lab~rat >:-)
puked:
>
>http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=533151&publicationSubCategoryId=107
>
>December 17, 2009
>
>Global warming could sink Cebu
>
>CEBU, Philippines -
>
>Global warming and climate change threaten to submerge and wipe out
>the whole of Cebu by 2020, the chairman of Typhoon Committee
>Foundation, warned, as he called for the public to be aware of drastic
>effects of calamities that may hit Philippines,
Yeah, there's a real serious CO2 threat I hear:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091217/D9CL1F181.html
Forced evacuations around Philippine volcano
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Dec 17, 6:35 AM (ET)
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LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) - Security forces will forcibly evacuate
thousands of residents reluctant to leave their farms near a
smoldering volcano in the Philippines despite fears of a major
eruption, officials said.
Authorities in Albay province on Thursday declared a round-the-clock
ban on anyone entering with a five-mile (eight-kilometer) danger zone
around the Mayon volcano, which is spewing lava and ash.
More than 33,000 of about 47,000 people have been evacuated from the
zone this week, after scientists raised a five-stage alert to the
third level - a signal of possible hazardous eruptions within weeks.
Albay Gov. Joey Salceda said a provincial board has authorized police
and soldiers to move out some 2,000 remaining families starting
Friday, Salceda said.
He said police will show pictures of victims of a 1993 eruption that
killed more than 70 people as they go around villages to "inform
(residents) of the risk of staying."
He said many have refused to leave their vegetable farms on the
volcano's slopes during the current harvest time.
Chief state volcanologist Renato Solidum said Mayon, the most active
of the country's 22 volcanoes, continued to rumble with 82 quakes and
eight ash explosions during a 24-hour period ending Thursday morning.
He said sulfur dioxide gas, which the volcano emits during unrest,
rose to 2,758 tons from 750 tons during the previous 24-hour period.
Lava continued to trickle down the slope of the 8,070-foot
(2,460-meter) mountain Thursday, and two lava domes have formed from
rising magma inside the crater, Solidum said. Such domes are formed by
piles of lava that have not cascaded down the slopes or been burst by
pressure.
Solidum said the domes could grow bigger and plug the crater.
"It can block the passage of gas. So then if the gas is pressurized,
then it can explode," he said.
The current activity of the volcano is similar to the initial phases
of previous eruptions in 2000, 2001 and 2006, he said.
He said there was a high danger that cascading lava could trigger a
pyroclastic flow - superheated gas and volcanic debris racing down the
slopes at very high speed, vaporizing everything in its path.
Salceda said the police and military will block 12 gateways to 56
villages within the danger zone to enforce the round-the-clock curfew
on the area, which will remain until scientists lower the volcano
alert by one level.
Salceda also said the provincial government has borrowed a helicopter
that could fly "nightly patrols" around the volcano.
The evacuees, mostly poor farmers and laborers, will spend Christmas
at evacuation centers.
At the Bagumbayan Central School in Legazpi, the provincial capital,
Guilly Anonuevo, a 75-year-old veteran of five evacuations, will spend
Christmas for the first time in an evacuation center.
"We do not know where we will get our Christmas dinner. We have no
money," she said. "It's all right to be sad as long as we are safe
from Mayon's eruption."
---
--
lab~rat >:-)
Do you want polite or do you want sincere?
Giga
1m or less above sea level. You can see map here of effect on Cebu (city) if
no action were taken:
http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=10.2605,123.9670&z=5&m=1
AFAIK the IPCC topend is 40cm rise by 2100, but hey.
"Bret Cahill" <BretC...@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
news:421b6738-1d80-460d...@u1g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
f.barnes
> http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=533151&publicationSubC...
>
>
> Global warming could sinkCebu
>
> CEBU, Philippines -
>
> Global warming and climate change threaten to submerge and wipe out
> Foundation, warned, as he called for the public to be aware of drastic
> effects of calamities that may hit Philippines, specificallyCebu.
>
> Angeo Palmones, chairman of the Typhoon Committee Foundation, Inc.
> revealed this during yesterday’s Forum-Orientation on Typhoon, Flood,
> Auditorium.
>
> .................................................................................................................
>
> Palmones, a professor of University of the Philippines Diliman, and
> the co-founder and first president of the Philippine Science
> Journalists Association, Inc. said that they received a report from
> Greenpeace Southeast Asia stating that because of the impact of
> climate change, rise in local sea levels, and receding coastlines
> could flood and submerge the entireCebu.
>
> ...................................................................................................................
>
> Palmones added that because of the dramatic melting of the polar ice
> cap and the melting glaciers and land-based ice sheets, they also
> contribute to rising sea levels, threatening low-lying areas around
> the globe with beach erosion, coastal flooding, and contamination of
> freshwater supplies.
>
> He continued that if bioengineering intervention won’t be implemented,
>
> “The rate of glacier ice melting, precipitation, deforestation, and
> land degradation which causes landslide, soil erosion, and the
> increased siltation of the river system will contribute to the rise of
> the water sea level.
>
> He furthered that natural threats such as pollutants will increase the
> precipitation of water, thus more water are collected, increasing the
> water sea level.
>
> “It’s a cycle, when you alter the natural resources, there’s in an
> increase in precipitation and it will cause flooding,” he said.
>
> Palmones told The Freeman that based on the Green peace Southeast Asia
> report, the top ten provinces vulnerable to one-meter sea level rise
> are Sulu, Palawan, Zamboanga, Northern Samar, Zamboanga Sibugay,
Google the geology of Cebu and you'll find that the problem is not so
much that the seas are rising but rather that the land is sinking.
John Q Public
How much ya wanna bet Phillipines is lobbying for cap & trade funds