I think we have now entered a new phase regarding global warming and Global Climate Change.
If you notice what happened regarding Typhoon Haiyan, what saved the most lives is not evacuation to another location on some islands, it is getting enough information to know you needed to get on a plane and off ANY affected island in the Philippines.
Some islands just had no safe place to go at all. On some islands even if you were in a cement walled building that was built to sustain hurricane force winds the roof blew off and you were injured or died anyway. And even if you were in one of these buildings not high enough off the sea level you were washed out of the buildings only to be blown away into a tree or something.
So, I think in regard to superstorms here on earth whether they are typhoons, hurricanes, Cyclones, Tornadoes, Flooding or even severe droughts it will be the rich and educated and informed who will tend to survive and those who die or are injured will be more and more the ignorant, the uneducated, and the poor worldwide.
This is now a sea change for everyone on earth to contemplate.
Typhoon Haiyan is the first storm to take on the Characteristics of an Earthquake, Tsunami or extreme flood which takes the whole world to a whole new place in how we perceive the weather. When any storm kills 8000 people or more it becomes something that begins to be as horrific as the Japanese Tsunami that killed 25,000 to 30,000 people and the 2004 Tsunami that killed 225,000 to 250,000 people at that time.
What I'm saying is that when storms emulate earthquakes and tsunamis the earth has become a much scarier place to live because there will in the future be many more bad storms than bad earthquakes that cause tsunamis. The laws of probability are on the side of really bad storms unfortunately.
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