Good luck Fiji

[Weka]

I'm guessing the same, that and it's a tiny pacific nation of 900,000, and not a super power country.

[Gal]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35623944

Poor souls.

[Kaz]

Oooh how awful Those poor people

[Weka]

Entire villages destroyed. A RNZAF Orion has now flown over, and the pictures don't look good.
News tonight showed more, even schools destroyed and furniture pushed into the corner of the room by the storm. All wooden homes (majority) destroyed or badly damaged. Brick fared better. I guess the 3rd little pig knew how to build a strong house.

[Kaz]

Seen some stuff on BBC Breakfast, just shocking Weka!

[Suff]

Just seen this. The weather is a great equaliser and it's power is phenomenal.

I feel for the islanders. The gusts must have been over 200 mph. I talked to a colleague in the army who served on South Georgia. He said that when he fell over in a 135mph storm he was floating on the air. Had he not been clipped to a lifeline he would have taken off at 135mph.

Terrifying.

[Aggers]

I feel so sorry for the poor souls who are subjected to these horrible weather events,
which are getting too frequent lately. The worrying aspect is that, if these are a
consequence of man-made activities, as many experts say, then they are likely to get
more frequent, and possibly more severe. A worrying thought.

[Suff]

Exchange likely with "will" and you are getting there.

When I talk about the cost of Global Warming being 2 Billion lives I'm not joking in the slightest. This is merely the calm before the storm..

The tragedy is that it will be people like this who pay the price. Mainly peaceful, simply, nice people who emit virtually nothing themselves and have virtually no way to protect themselves from what is coming...

I feel for them. But there is little I can do to help them other than awareness of what we are doing, how we need to avoid it (real action not political platitudes) and how to manipulate our politicians to get something done.

[Aggers]

I agree with what you say, Suff. but how can this problem be solved?

It would be no good just one country changing its way of life, if the rest of the world continued unaltered.
To be honest I can't see even one country doing what is necessary, which would probably mean reverting
to a style of living not far removed from that of 100 years ago, when mass commuting to work was unheard of, and travel abroad was extremely rare, and very few people had cars.

[Suff]

OK so here’s a thought.

Instead of each country researching alternate technology for clean energy, how about we push money into a global effort? I know nobody really trusts the UN but who else could do it.

The outcome of that work could be used globally without patent getting in the way.

There is one start.