As Vanuatu suffers, more urgency needed on climate

 I was writing a little about this recently. Basically, when you get 168 mile per hour winds, anyone outside that isn't tied to a tree is likely going to die if they aren't under something to protect them. And even if they tie themselves to a tree that tree might be blown down in a wind that strong. And even if they are tied to a tree they better be on the down wind side of the tree so things don't cut pieces of them off while they fly by.

These kinds of winds are only going to increase over time as well likely up to 200 mph or more. I was reading where we have now seen winds in hurricanes, Typhoons, Cyclones (all the same thing in different areas of the world) up to about 230 to 250 mph now. If no one survives in 168 mile per hour (this is what Vanuatu experienced)  winds without being tied to a tree or under ground in a shelter what do you think 250 mph winds are going to do? You might live 70 years some place but if you are caught out in 250 mph winds sometime you aren't likely going to be alive anymore if you aren't sheltered somewhere no matter where you are on earth.

And 250 mph winds are going to be more normal now where hurricanes, Tornadoes, Cyclones and Typhoons are all over the earth. So, knowing what to do and when one is coming is foremost to all peoples survival now if they live in the path of something like this anywhere on earth especially anywhere in the Pacific Ocean region where winds have nothing to stop them across up to 5000 miles of ocean or more.

They were also saying how many (up to 100,000 people) living on Vanuatu live on 50 cents to  dollar a day. People this close to the edge might not survive this without some help even if they survived the storm. So, just like the storm last year in the Philippines this storm likely will devastate for years to come the poorest people there.

So, what I'm saying is it isn't the storms that take the most lives, it is the next few years after the storms that takes and destroys lives the most.

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As Vanuatu suffers, more urgency needed on climate: World Bank

Despite ominous predictions of mass devastation in cyclone-wrecked Vanuatu, policymakers at a UN disaster meeting in Japan do not seem to understand the pressing need to tackle climate change, the World Bank warned Sunday. "I worry that a sense of urgency and a sense of shared ambition is not at…

AFP