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These are the sobering words from the Philippines delegate at the UN climate talks taking place in Poland right now. As nations continue to squabble about whether to take action on climate change, his country is reeling from what may be the biggest storm ever recorded on earth. http://ow.ly/qMNIy

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"If Not Now, Then When?": As Climate Talks Open in Poland, Philippines Devastated by Another Storm

As the Philippines reels from one of the worst storms in history, the annual U.N. climate summit is opening today in Warsaw, Poland. Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at the Weather Underground, says rising sea levels caused by global warming increased the size of the storm’s surge, while the heating of the oceans threatens more extreme storms that could form into typhoons. We also air the emotional plea of Yeb Saño, a member of the Philippines Climate Change Commission, urging action on global warming at last year’s climate summit in Doha. Saño spoke just as Typhoon Bopha hit his country, killing hundreds and leaving 250,000 homeless. "Heartbreaking tragedies like this are not unique to the Philippines, because the whole world — especially developing countries, struggling to address poverty and achieve social and human development — confront these same realities," Saño said. "I ask of all of us here: If not us, then who? If not now, then when? If not here, then where?"

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AMY GOODMAN: News reports in the Philippines are saying people are walking around like zombies, in shock after the typhoon. Jamela, we’re also joined by Maria Madamba-Nuñez, a spokesperson from Oxfam in the Philippines. She has also made it back to Manila but has been traveling through some of these devastated areas. Maria, welcome to Democracy Now! Describe what you have seen.
MARIA MADAMBA-NUÑEZ: Oh, hi. I’ve not actually been to the areas myself, but our teams have been. And like what the Al Jazeera reporter said, that’s true: Up to now, there’s no water, no food, no electricity in Tacloban, Leyte. The pharmacies are being looted. The markets are not working. And water pipes are being punctured to get water. One mother we have interviewed said that they’ve never seen anything like this. Before, there’s just small waves, but seeing like waves two stories high. And they refer to this not as a storm surge; the way they refer to this is like a tsunami. And so, this has wiped out all of their belongings and all of—and up to now, they’ve been walking the streets and looking for food and water.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you describe the scenes that Oxfam representatives are seeing? Because the problem right now is even getting to these devastated areas, the numbers of actual counted dead perhaps numbering a thousand, but the numbers feared, 10,000—some are saying tens of thousands—whole areas that just can’t be reached.
MARIA MADAMBA-NUÑEZ: Yes, yes. Like the other humanitarian teams, you know, it keeps to be—it remains to be a challenge, I mean, accessing this area. Yeah, that’s true. The number of feared dead number from 1,000 to 10,000. Right now 9.5 million families are already affected, and that’s like double from the estimate of yesterday. That’s 10 percent—that’s almost 10 percent of the population of the whole country. And 600,000 persons are now in evacuation centers. So these are internally displaced people with no food, no water, and not even government. This is really overwhelming humanitarian capacities, both local and national capacities, in terms of delivering the life-saving goods that need to get to the affected area.
AMY GOODMAN: What needs to get there the most, Maria?

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