Climate change--.."Climate Change,Be Awake!"

ED ROGERS
White House staffer to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; chairman of BGR Group

There is global climate science and then there is the Global Warming Movement. The movement hijacked the science a long time ago, and it has had its share of setbacks lately. Its leaders have tried to stiff-arm their way past errors, lies, fraud, pointless tax increase proposals and some really peculiar posing in Copenhagen.

"Floods a wake-up call for climate change"

MANILA, Philippines – The massive floods that inundated the Philippine capital were a chilling reminder of the need to seriously address climate change, experts said, warning that the lives of millions were at stake.

More rain fell on Manila and surrounding regions in nine hours on Saturday than the amount Hurricane Katrina dumped on New Orleans in 2005.

The ferocity of the storm shocked even seasoned experts in this Southeast Asian country where an average 20 typhoons hit every year, but they said it continued a recent pattern of unusually bad weather.

Civil defense chief Anthony Golez and the country's chief weather forecaster, Prisco Nilo, said they were puzzled by "strange" changes in the behavior of the typhoons that struck the country over the past two years.

In April, which is supposed to be a summer month for the Philippines, three typhoons hit the country, with one of the storms triggering a landslide that killed 250 people south of the capital, Golez said.

The typhoons also deviated from their traditional paths during the month of June, traversing the northern and central parts of the main Luzon island for the first time.

"When you try to scientifically observe the data... we will find this year and last year as very strange years, and we can only presuppose that this is due to climate change," Golez said.

At least 240 people have been confirmed killed in Saturday's flooding that overwhelmed large parts of the sprawling metropolis of 12 million people, including gated middle-class enclaves which had never been flooded in the past.

"We can't just blame this on the rain. We know this is the worst deluge in 40 years. We know there is climate change happening, there is no debate about that," Greenpeace campaigner Mark Dia said on local television.

"This is just a glimpse of what will happen. This is not even a super typhoon. We need to be prepared. This is just a taste of things to come. We need to have more preparations and we need to factor in climate change."

"This has to be a wake-up call for the world as it prepares for the climate change talks in Copenhagen later this year,"

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