Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Is the "Al Gore of the Philippines" suggesting that when my iPhone charger heats the Antarctic ice, the meltwater pools over the Philippine seas?

State of the Climate Speech - The Official Website of Loren Legarda
It is time to recognize that disasters, turbocharged by a changing climate, have undone years of development gains, and that unsound and short-sighted development practices themselves are playing a significant role in worsening disaster risk.

We are at present, in a darker place than we could have ever imagined – we are polluting at a rate more rapid than what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had declared as the worst-case scenario.

The climate crisis knows no territorial boundaries.
...As one of the countries most affected by sea level rise, the Philippines is inundated 9-12mm per year which is much higher than the global annual average of 3mm.
Loren Legarda: Information from Answers.com
In 2008, she was chosen as "United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Asia Pacific Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation". She was a member of the Philippine delegation during the 2009 Copenhagen Summit.

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