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 Was climate change to blame for Typhoon Haiyan?
The debate has intensified as graphic images from my home, the storm-ravaged Philippines, continue to splash over the Internet and TV screens worldwide. In Warsaw, meanwhile, negotiators are edging toward a global agreement on emissions and climate financing. I can't help but wonder who'll be left high and dry.
At the event in Poland, the Philippine representative was understandably hammering the point that yes, Haiyan is without a doubt a product of climate change.
"We can fix this. We can stop this madness. Right now, right here," Naderev Saño said in a tearful speech Monday before delegates of the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Saño's family hails from one of the areas that bore the brunt of Haiyan's fury, Tacloban City, Leyte. And he told his peers that he'd go on hunger strike until "a meaningful outcome is in sight."
Whether this is climate change or not, all I know is: This is different.
As a Filipino, I've lived through many disasters — we endure more than 20 typhoons a year. A few years ago, I was trapped inside my abode as Ketsana pummeled the country and submerged a great part of Manila. Others lost their property, if not their lives.
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| | | PHOTO OF THE WEEK | The aftermath
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The children in this photo are inhabitants of the Philippine city of Tacloban — a once-bustling coastal city now devastated after typhoon Haiyan hit the shores.
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