Last updated at 10:11 ET
Super Typhoon Haiyan (click here) is the 25th tropical storm to enter Philippine territory this year and reports suggest there have been sustained winds of some 320 km/h (199mph) with gusts of up to 378 km/h (235mph)...
November 13, 2013 - 8:48PM
Tom Arup Environment Editor
...The meteorological organisation's secretary-general, (click here) Michel Jarraud, said all the warmest years across the planet had occurred since 1998, and 2013 once again continued the underlying long-term trend of warming.
"The coldest years now are warmer than the hottest years before 1998," he said. "Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases reached new highs in 2012, and we expect them to reach unprecedented levels yet again in 2013. This means that we are committed to a warmer future."
Global land and ocean temperatures are recorded by the organisation as about 0.48 degrees higher in January to September than the 1961-1990 average. The temperatures so far this year are the same as the average for 2001-10, the warmest decade on record.
In other areas the extent of Arctic sea ice recovered
slightly from record rates of melting last year, but 2013 was still one
of the lowest years on record. Conversely in Antarctica, sea ice extent
reached a record high in September. The organisation says Antarctica
differs from the Arctic because it is land surrounded by open water,
whereas the Arctic is comprised of water surrounded by land.Tropical cyclones numbers for 2013 are nearing the 1981-2010 average of 89 storms, with 86 so far this year.
It is over. It has been over. The deniers need to be regarded as insignificant. It is too dangerous not to.
Vol 455
4 September 2008
doi:10.1038
nature07234
James B. Elsner
James B. Elsner
James P. Kossin
& Thomas H. Jagger
...Here we shed new light on this topic by using globally consistent satellite-derived tropical cyclone windspeeds and by focusing on the lifetime-maximum wind speeds of the strongest tropical cyclones each year....
The sea surface temperatures in hte Atlantic are higher consistently across the ocean surface.This NOAA technology (click here).
The stranded Philippine survivors might be best served by dropping packages of supplies by helicopter and/or plane.
MANILA — Drenched by rain (click here) and increasingly desperate, typhoon-stricken Filipinos rushed fences and pleaded with guards Tuesday at the battered airport serving as a tenuous lifeline to an international aid effort confronted at every turn by transport and logistics bottlenecks....
