Over 700 “climate warriors” are now in the Philippines from all over Asia for training by the Climate Reality Leadership Training Corps., a program of the Climate Reality Project founded by former United States Vice President Al Gore, today the world’s foremost champion of climate protection. The Philippines is a specially apt site for the training program. It is particularly vulnerable to Pacific typhoons but it displayed courage and resilience in the wake of super-typhoon Yolanda which hit the Visayas in November, 2013, Gore said. The Philippines also has advanced climate change laws which are now seen as models for the rest of the world, he added. Scientists predict that typhoons which come sweeping westward from the Pacific Ocean are likely to become stronger with the continued warming of the oceans. More than 90 percent of the heat trapped by global warming goes into the oceans and the waters around [...]
