Typhoon Pepeng hits Northern Part of the Philippines
It was about a semester when I posted something in my blog. Just this night, I get online to see some new things in Facebook and in my forums in Skyscrapercity. I chatted my sister Kim to talk about my other sister Karen who is in the hospital because of High-Blood Pressure. Kim told me that today is a Blog Action Day 2009. Then I told her what is it all about and she said that it is all about bloggers around the world will share opinions about an issue of global importance. Climate Change is this year's topic. I think I can impart to you some things regarding of this year's topic.
The article goes like this...
The Philippines is located at the northern hemisphere of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Our country is the route of the North Equatorial Currents coming from the east coast of Northern Americas. The North America is a temperate region. It experiences heavy ice storms, avalanche and thick ice formations.
The increase of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere would trap light waves coming from the sun thus the reason why climatic change is being experienced. The excessive use of CFC’s would react to the ozone layer and this leads to its reduction. The “An Inconvenient Truth” stated that the ozone is the most vulnerable part of the Earth’s ecosystem. Upon the thinning of the layer, there would be too much light waves that are penetrating the Earth’s atmosphere. Then not all the light waves are reflected back to the space because the CO2’s are trapping them.
In relation with the location of the Philippines, it is mentioned earlier that it is the route of the Ocean Currents coming from the East of Pacific Ocean. The heavy ice formations of the North America would be evaporated faster because of the climatic changes. Then the evaporated water from the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean is carried to the western part through the Ocean Currents. It also mentioned in the documentary that the current velocity would speeds up as the temperature increases. The Philippines is one of the countries that is greatly affected with the heavy precipitation of the currents that form heavy monsoon rains.
Pepeng and Ondoy are some examples of the wind currents that formed heavy monsoon rains resulting to heavy floods in the National Capital Region of the country. It is very painful that us humans are one of the major contributors of these changes. There are so many things to recover but there will be much more to achieve.
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