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    1. The documentary examines the impacts of climate change based on Typhoon Haiyan, the deadliest typhoon in Philippine history. It caused massive damage, leaving thousands dead and millions displaced from their homes. 2. Evidence presented shows how climate change leads to warmer oceans and atmosphere, which allows storms to intensify and hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainfall and higher sea levels. Typhoon Haiyan formed over the warmest ocean waters, demonstrating this effect. 3. Watching the documentary alarmed the writers about the serious damage caused by climate change. It shifted their views on the importance of environmental protection, recognizing humanity's role in the problem but also our ability to make progress through

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    1. The documentary examines the impacts of climate change based on Typhoon Haiyan, the deadliest typhoon in Philippine history. It caused massive damage, leaving thousands dead and millions displaced from their homes. 2. Evidence presented shows how climate change leads to warmer oceans and atmosphere, which allows storms to intensify and hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainfall and higher sea levels. Typhoon Haiyan formed over the warmest ocean waters, demonstrating this effect. 3. Watching the documentary alarmed the writers about the serious damage caused by climate change. It shifted their views on the importance of environmental protection, recognizing humanity's role in the problem but also our ability to make progress through

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    1. The documentary examines the impacts of climate change based on Typhoon Haiyan, the deadliest typhoon in Philippine history. It caused massive damage, leaving thousands dead and millions displaced from their homes. 2. Evidence presented shows how climate change leads to warmer oceans and atmosphere, which allows storms to intensify and hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainfall and higher sea levels. Typhoon Haiyan formed over the warmest ocean waters, demonstrating this effect. 3. Watching the documentary alarmed the writers about the serious damage caused by climate change. It shifted their views on the importance of environmental protection, recognizing humanity's role in the problem but also our ability to make progress through

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    Exercise 2.

    Pair Essay
    Instructions: Watch the video Typhoon Haiyan: Eye of the Storm on YouTube
    (https://www.youtube.com/ watch? v=-BnahLg_LG_DmQ). Then, with a partner, write a
    reaction essay on the documentary using the following questions. Limit your essay to 300-
    500 words.
    1. What are the impacts of climate change on meteorological patterns?

    2. What pieces of evidence are presented that proves or reinforces the connection
    between climate change and the changing meteorological patterns?

    3. How did the documentary affect your personal beliefs and actions toward protecting
    the environment?

    It is universally agreed upon that for an effect to take place, there was a cause that took before
    it, such as the case with climate change and its underlying impacts on meteorological events
    like storms. In November 7th 2013, Typhoon Haiyan (also known as Typhoon Yolanda) struck
    the Philippines and was the deadliest typhoon in the country’s history. Typhoon Haiyan caused
    major and severe damages to Tacloban where over thousands lost their lives, about 4.1 million
    people were left displaced from their homes, and 6 million workers were left without any way
    or means to support their family and livelihood. And it just so happens to be this, one of the
    most dangerous typhoons ever recorded, was caused by none other than climate change.
    Many have thought that climate change had no effect on meteorological patterns and
    effects, but this simply is not the case. It was found out that the rise of global temperature had
    a relation to the changes in weather pattern. This means that a warmer atmosphere can hold
    more moisture, therefore adding more moisture for storm systems, resulting in heavier rainfall.
    Experts agree that climate change warms the waters of oceans, adding energy that can fuel
    storms leading to the rise of sea levels. The rising of sea levels is also caused by the melting of
    glaciers and warming of the oceans which evidently were attributed to climate change. Further,
    Jeff Weber from an Atmospheric Research department claims that Typhoon Haiyan was formed
    over the warmest waters on the planet. If climate change continues to produce more intense
    heat waves, sea levels will continue to rise and in the next decades, deadlier storms are
    expected to afflict the lands. The shocking part about these extreme weather events and shift
    of weather patterns is that they are more likely to become intense and frequent with human-
    induced climate change.
    After watching this documentary, we were alarmed of how serious the damage of
    climate change is. Climate change is caused by the excessive use of greenhouse gases. It is even
    more expanded by companies in the gas and oil industry – the major contributors of climate
    change. We realized that, as consumers, we do not show interest in stopping this which
    encourages the big companies to continue releasing fossil fuels in the air. We are partly at fault
    for the damage caused by the super typhoons. If we remain neutral to the damaging acts
    against climate, then we also remain as the oppressor.
    It has shifted our personal views on just how meaningful protecting the environment is.
    Humanity and nature have a mutual relationship where one benefits from one another if given
    positive action but also destroy each other when done negatively. Frankly we do not have the
    power to retrieve what is now lost, we cannot undo the past but we can make the future. We
    can protect the environment even with little by little progress and it all starts with us, humanity.

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