Almost exactly one year after Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S.eastern seaboard, the strongest typhoon in recorded history hasslammed into the Philippines.
|“Super Typhoon” Haiyan swept through the Philippines last night.Officials haven't been able to make contact with many of theaffected areas, so the extent of the damage, or how many peoplehave been injured or killed, is still not clear.
|As for the link to climate change, experts theorize that aplentiful supply of typhoon-fueling warm ocean waters, lowatmospheric wind shear, and generous amounts of warm and moist airsurrounding these storms are to blame.
|Read the entire story by Goerge Dvorsky at io9 here.
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