Deniers scoff at Typhoon Yolanda (aka Haiyan)

From the New York Times:  CEBU, Philippines — One of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded now appears to have devastated cities, towns and fishing villages with heavy loss of life when it played a deadly form of hopscotch across the islands of the central Philippines on Friday. The first and most vocal city to cryContinue reading “Deniers scoff at Typhoon Yolanda (aka Haiyan)”

Climate change + health in Philippines: Charlotte Kellogg

Last December at the AGU, I heard a presentation of a ground-breaking and troubling study on climate change and public health in the Philippines. Two young researchers charted typhoons and their aftermath, and argued powerfully that our reporting of the damage caused by these powerful but brief storms (one of which landed near Manila in August)Continue reading “Climate change + health in Philippines: Charlotte Kellogg”