The United Nations and other environmentalists’ organizations all throughout the world has identified the abnormal changes in world’s climate as the most serious problem that the world is currently facing and will face in the future. One of the most common effects on this climate change is what we called global warming or the warming on the earth’s atmosphere. According to scientists, the main cause of global warming is the greenhouse gases that are continuously increasing in exponential form because of the world’s modernization. These greenhouse gases are mainly composed of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), water vapor (H2O) CFCs and methane gases that came from burning fossil fuels to energy use in factories and vehicles, landfills where people throw their wastes. The uncontrolled dumping of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by people has caused the volume of these gases to exponentially increase to billion metric tons in a short period of time. According to expert scientists and environmentalists the effects of this abnormal increase in earth’s temperature are very destructive. Stronger typhoons will hit countries that lies within the oceans, water level on seas and oceans will increase as ice from north and south poles starting to melt, causing islands to vanished in an instant.
Honestly on my part, I keep telling to myself that the effects of global warming will be felt slowly and not as fatal. But these thoughts of mine were totally erased from my mind upon seeing the worst effects of global warming to humanity when the Philippines were hit by typhoon Ondoy last September 2009, and typhoon Peping on October 2009. These 2 typhoons were not the strongest ones ever identified by PAG-ASA, but unexpectedly, shocked me upon seeing the news that some provinces of Luzon and cities of Metro Manila were heavily flooded. Flood reached as high as the 2nd floor of houses causing residents to evacuate on their rooftops and waited to be rescued for 24 hours, no food, and water and wearing wet clothes. Before typhoon Ondoy landed on the Philippine area of responsibility, PAG-ASA raised a signal no.1 on these provinces, but even PAG-ASA were shocked, it rained heavy for 9 hours causing dams and rives to overflow into the cities. Many were held homeless and more than 500 people died. Typhoon Pepeng also made its presence felt in northern part of Luzon were it caused landslides to some provinces like Benguet and Pangasinan provinces. Many people lost their source of income as farms were also washed up by floods.
With an average of 20 typhoons hitting the Philippines every year, Filipinos must expect stronger typhoons coming. The Philippine government and its people must be serious in combating climate change. What happened in Ondoy and Pepeng must serve as a big lesson for us people and serve as an eye opener to the worst effects of climate change and deforestation. It is time for us to commit ourselves in fighting climate change. This weblog of mine could be use as my tool to spread the words with regards to the cause and effects of climate change. Increasing the level of awareness of people with regards to the causes of climate change and global warming will be helpful in finding better solutions to stop this wrongful doing of humans. It can attract more people to love our environment and make it as their advocacy.
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