Philippines super typhoon brings more evidence of climate change, increasingly severe storms

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Editor---"Let me repeat myself: This is a very real danger, and we can mitigate and lessen its effects if we use the information available to prepare," President Benigno S. Aquino III was quoted as saying in a national TV address Thursday as residents were warned of a potential calamity to it the Philippines, as scientists have predicted might happen as a consequence of climate change.

While the naysayers of past years, and some who continue to be despite contrary evidence, deny climate change the worsening storms are but a signal of more to come, scientists declare.  Those in the scientific community who have said otherwise were not the graduates of the better schools nor the higher levels of the scientific community; but there were those who nevertheless used their evidence to say that weather events like Hurricane Sandy and now the violent storm in the Philippines are but the usual and customary of weather changes that take place in the natural order of events.

Now the evidence is grave, and graver still are the predictions of the future.  The time to prepare for that worst scenario came more than 15 years ago, as Al Gore declared the world must prepare for climate change.  And even as a few nations began to consider scientists warning to be serious, key nations continued to find reasons why climate change just wasn't so.

Former President Bush was one of those who scoffed at the notion of climate change, along with key politicians in his administration.  Later Bush was to admit that human behavior had some impact on climate in negative way, but the process of protecting people and making the right plans for the coming storms was put in the back drawer for folks to worry about later.

It is now time to worry, scientists say and that collaboration and sacrifice must take place, or all the discussions of government shutdowns, health care quarrels and debates over abortion will continue to cover up the neglect in outlining what the world needs most, attention to the details of climate change and cooperation to prevent the worsening events.

The typhoon in the Philippines is said to have been fueled by the warm waters in the region.

President Obama declares 'Osama bin Laden is dead'

While the nation waited anxiously, President Barack Obama was reported to be preparing his historical announcement that Osama bin Laden was killed in Islamabad and that the body is in the hands of America, bringing to a close a dark chapter in history that was hammered into the memories of the world on September 11, 2001.

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Osama bin Laden had orchestrated the bombing of the World Trade Towers that killed 3,000 people in Washington DC, a field in Pennsylvania and the Towers in New York City.  Then President Bush vowed to capture bin Laden "dead or alive."  On President Obama's watch, bin Laden was killed, as the particulars of what happened began to filter in from media sources in the Middle East and the United States.

Tonight hundreds of people have gathered on the White House lawn singing patriotic songs in celebration of the announcement of bin Laden's death.  In the meantime, CNN reported that there is heightened security in anticipation of the possibility of retaliation by members of Al Qaida.

President Obama, media sources close to the White House said, had been busy most of the day, interacting with top administration officials.  The press was notified to be ready for the announcement originally scheduled for 10:30 p.m. Sunday, EST.  The announcement was made one hour later.

In his remarks Obama thanked President al Zadari and Pakistan for assistance in the US locating and killing bin Laden.

The announcement comes after whispers fanned by right wing conspiracy theorists that Obama was in league with foreign sources and because his father was Muslim that he would be soft on terrorism.  It is, however, during Obama Presidency that the historic announcement was made Sunday night that the body of bin Laden is in US hands and that the terrorist sought for ten years is dead.