GLOBAL WARMING, anyone?.. it is becoming very HOT in the Philippines!.
By seventhblue
@seventhblue (104)
Philippines
May 6, 2010 5:23pm CST
Have you noticed it lately? The climate in the Philippines is really changing and I guess it's all because of global warming. There was a time when my friend tried to check the temperature outside our place and I was shocked when I heard it. It was 43'C!!... And now, it is still May but it is already starting to rain. May is not part of the rainy season, right?..
Climate is really changing and I guess it's not only here in the Philippines.
With all these things happening, do you think that we can still do something to stop Global Warming?
What is the situation in your place?
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@TheAdvocate (2392)
• Philippines
6 May 10
Our summers have always been very hot, but global warming has supposedly increased temperatures around the world by a few degrees. May usually brings the first showers, ushering in the monsoon months. Global warming is inevitable, the human race just accelerated the schedule with all the pollution that we have created.
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
7 May 10
I have to agree with you on this. Human activities is making the climate warmer and warmer. We are so dependent on oil to burn for our energy needs as well as to transport us from one location to another. Manila is so densely populated that the heat it produces and release to our atmosphere makes the climate even worse. I could see everywhere the grass that use to be green is not yellow and dry. It usually doesn't happen during summers they may be wilted but there are portions that are still green in the plant.
If you would just notice if you spill a water on road here in EDSA you can see steam coming out of it after sometime. Even after rains you can see and smell the rains evaporating immediately after it stop raining.
@ybong007 (6643)
• Philippines
7 May 10
There's no way humans can stop global warming. We can slow it down, perhaps. Stopping is means we have to change the way how we treat our environment and take away life's simple pleasure like having electricity, cease manufacturing things and a lot more, reduce the earth's population significantly. In short, we need to go back the middle ages. But that's next to impossible so what we can do now is to adapt.
@emdyey09 (264)
• Philippines
7 May 10
It's climate change. I really believe this is climate change even if PAGASA doesn't say so. On 2007 a really strong typhoon devastated our town that had caught us all unaware and totally ill-prepared. Why? It was May 17 then. Not yet the typhoon season. 70% of the houses at our area had its roofs blown away.
2008 and 2009, and 2010, the first rain came on the last week of April. All signs that rainy season is coming is there. The plants that only grows during that season are already available, the bugs (salaginto at salagubang) had also proliferated, lilies are blooming. These are all signs that rainy season is coming. And they're all happening before May!
Scientists had predicted this. The whole planet is becoming warmer. I'm not sure how much but it is becoming warmer. Since we cannot do anything about it, we'll just have to deal with it.
