Time magazine names [Joe Romm] one of the “Heroes of the Environment 2009″ « Climate Progress

When your father is a newspaper editor and your mother is also a journalist and your older brother collects comic books, it’s hard not to see journalists as heroes.

Waterworld

Seeing many areas in Metro Manila turned into an ocean, I remember the 1995 futuristic movie “Waterworld”.

“Waterworld” starring kevin Coster as the mutant mariner (he has webbed feet and gills behind the ears) is about the earth when polar ice caps melted . The earth is submerged in water. The survivors didn’t know that; they thought that somewhere at the end of the vast body of water is dry land.

When Manila became a Katrina: Our True EDSA | NowPublic News Coverage

Now, we, here in Metro Manila, face our own Katrina, this time, brought by Tropical Storm Ketsana. Due to the ineptitude of our government officials, huge portions of our communities are now submerged in 12 feet deep water. Our government tried to say that this was brought about by freak weather (since the amount of rainfall reached 34.1 centimeters, the highest in 40 years). But, I saw the devastation. And if you look at the photos taken from disaster areas, you'll find that the water was muddy. Those waters came from our denuded mountains.

Some of those waters which flooded our financial district were waters which accumulated because expensive billion peso pumps by our metropolitan authority failed to function. Net---this could have been mitigated if our government officials acted responsibly.

Green Car Congress: Researchers Find That Unusual Arctic Warmth and Tropical Wetness Likely Cause for Methane Increase

Dlugokencky and his colleagues from the United States and Brazil note that while climate change can trigger a process which converts trapped carbon in permafrost to methane, as well as release methane embedded in Arctic hydrates—a compound formed with water—their observations “are not consistent with sustained changes there yet.”