FR. SHAY CULLEN, SSC
As I write this, monster typhoon “Tisoy,” with international name “Kammuri,” is ravaging the Bicol Region in central Philippines. It is packing winds at 209 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour) and it is more ferocious than the previous typhoons to hit this part of the nation’s archipelago. Tidal surges are wrecking houses, and the wind is ripping away and shredding the light bamboo structures of the poor. On the mountain, landslides threatened whole villages. This is climate change at it's worst, it's very worst, as the earth grows hotter and the oceans warmer, causing massive evaporation and forming typhoons and massive rainstorms that cause flooding everywhere.