Super Typhoons: A New Normal For Filipinos?

A year after Super Typhoon Haiyan brought tremendous destruction to the Filipinos, another super typhoon again hit the Philippines.

Super Typhoon Hagupit struck the Philippines this weekend, ruining properties including the newly built houses that Haiyan survivors made.

According to the report of The Independent, the super typhoon Hagupit hit land with a wind of 87mph and gusts of 106mph, causing floods, heavy rains that sent more than 900,000 people fleeing for their lives in different places.

Furthermore, the Secretary of Climate Change Commission in the Philippines Mary Ann Lucille Sering urges world leaders in taking responds on the impacts of global warming.

"Every year since 2008, typhoons have become the backdrop of the climate change conference," Sering said in the report of Christian Today.

"That worsening weather means that ways of dealing with growing losses damage must be part of climate deal expected to be reached in 2015 in Paris," she added.

Moreover, Greenpeace campaigners claim that typhoon is due to climate change and thus Philippines should not embrace it regularly as a new normal.

"The people of the Philippines cannot just accept this is going to be the new normal in our lives," said Anna Abad, Greenpeace's climate justice campaigner for the Philippines in the report of The Independent.

To address the increasing number of storms hitting the Philippines, Greenpeace global chief Kumi Naidoo also urges world governments to act quickly, according to the report of Agence France Presse.

Meanwhile, as the Climate Change Conference is currently taking place in Lima, Peru, Naderev Sano, the Climate Change Commissioner of Climate Change Commission in the Philippines posted a tweet saying, "We refuse to accept that facing super typhoons become a way of life. #ClimateJustice"

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