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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Typhoon Wipha heads for Shanghai

1.6 million people have already been evacuated. Cue the climate-change/super-storm debate.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:59 AM

    Coastal dwellers

    I do recall hearing that roughly half of the world's population lives within a meter or two of sea level. Any storm surge going beyond that will adversely affect them. Sea levels rising with melting icecaps over the coming years will affect them globally, not just locally, as storms will.

    And I believe a typhoon is just a hurricane-force storm on the other side of the International Dateline.

    —Alan Lloyd Read Alan Lloyd's other letters

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