{"id":2279,"date":"2008-05-08T08:49:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T08:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/08\/cyclone-nargis-whats-happening\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T08:49:34","slug":"cyclone-nargis-whats-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/cyclone-nargis-whats-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Nargis:  What&#8217;s happening and how to donate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hurricanes\/archives\/2008\/h2008_nargis.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-1bde0458d4d8741c47b3a337237533ed-nargis_aqua.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-1bde0458d4d8741c47b3a337237533ed-nargis_aqua.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In this May 1, 2008, visible image from NASA&#8217;s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on NASA&#8217;s Aqua spacecraft, Cyclone Nargis is &#8230; a Category one hurricane located 370 miles west of Yangon, Myanmar, moving east-northeast at eight knots&#8230;. Fishermen are advised not to venture out to sea. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Based on information from MSNBC, CNN and BBC, certain things regarding Nargis seem to be coming to light.1) The death toll will likely exceed 100,000 people.2) The Myanmar Junta might be hiding bodies.3) The Myanmar Junta is allowing aid material but not aid workers into affected regions.4) Given the very shady nature of the government, we are beginning to tire of using the phrawse Myanmar.  The country&#8217;s name is Burma again.5) The mangrove swamps on the affected peninsula have been wrecked, and this will have enormous<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/grrlscientist\/2008\/05\/mangrove_destruction_magnified.php\"> environmental and human consequences<\/a>.6) About 95 percent of whatever was standing &#8230; trees, people, buildings &#8230; in the peninsula were knocked down and\/or washed away by a 3-4 meter high tidal surge.7) The UN is considering invading souther Burma in order to bring relief despite the efforts of the Junta to hinder helping this population.  I assume the peninsular Burmese are political undesirables.  Which would make this genocide as well as merely horrendous.Make your donations to one of the few organizations pre-authorized to work in this country, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.net\/alliance\/index.html\">Save the Children<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this May 1, 2008, visible image from NASA&#8217;s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on NASA&#8217;s Aqua spacecraft, Cyclone Nargis is &#8230; a Category one hurricane located 370 miles west of Yangon, Myanmar, moving east-northeast at eight knots&#8230;. Fishermen are advised not to venture out to sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,124,97],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-AL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}