Topic: Cop19

The humanitarian response to the typhoon in the Philippines is analyzed as a strategic military maneuver involving the USS George Washington and assets from Japan, Australia, and China. Reports surface of local Filipino officials repackaging aid for political credit. The event is being leveraged at the COP19 conference in Warsaw to push for climate change compensation, despite historical precedents of similar storms being blamed on global cooling in the 1970s.

Filipino diplomat Naderev "Yeb" Sano declares a hunger strike at the COP19 climate summit in Warsaw following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan. Sano calls for urgent action on the Green Climate Fund and criticizes historical carbon emitters. The hosts speculate that the hunger strike might be a face-saving way to avoid poor catering at the conference.