I have written a fair bit about climate change here on Continuations. It seems that in the US we have about a weeks worth of debate after a big storm such as Sandy and then it quickly dies down. So this year given the so far relatively uneventful hurricane season the debate seems entirely absent. That is tragic because none of the fundamentals have changed and we are seeing the devastating results now in the Philippines. Super typhoon Haiyan has apparently killed at least 10,000 people there ...