8 December 2012
So just how bad was the debris flow at Barangay Andap during typhoon Bopha / Pablo ?
Posted by Dave Petley
.This bad – the village was in the middle of the valley (image from MindaNews):
http://www.mindanews.com/tag/typhoon-pablo/
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It is hard to imagine what this would have looked like in reality. The answer is something like this:
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This is the very cost of the failure of effective disaster risk reduction, and the continuing unwillingness to address climate change.
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
Climate change? No, the climate has never been static as long as ice cores have shown. Moreover, lidar maps show landslides and debris flows from ancient times in far more places than were previously realized.
[Absolute nonsense. D.]