{"id":173722,"date":"2025-09-27T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:53:10","slug":"super-typhoon-ragasa-a-stark-reminder-of-asias-urgent-climate-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173722\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Ragasa a stark reminder of Asia\u2019s urgent climate challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Typhoon Ragasa\u2019s trail of devastation across <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/philippines?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Philippines<\/a>, Hong Kong, Taiwan and parts of mainland China has underscored the sobering risks Asia as a region faces from the consequences of climate change, scientists warn, pointing to heavy fossil fuel production and infrastructure lagging behind rapid urbanisation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures along Ragasa\u2019s path in the South China Sea helped it intensify over 24 hours to become the most powerful storm on Earth this year, packing wind speeds of more than 200km\/h.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Independent research group Climate Central says the conditions were exacerbated at least tenfold by human-induced climate change.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThese exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures increased the chances that Ragasa would rapidly intensify,\u201d said Daniel Gilford, meteorologist and climate scientist at Climate Central.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific were 0.7 to 1.1 degrees Celsius above average as Ragasa powered up, according to the group.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A drone view shows a collapsed bridge, following Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Hualien, Taiwan, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/91c5f3e9-0b4d-4d2b-9050-79e5ede86eaf_5c60d7de.jpg\" title=\"A drone view shows a collapsed bridge, following Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Hualien, Taiwan, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>A drone view shows a collapsed bridge, following Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Hualien, Taiwan, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Gerry Arrances, executive director of the Philippines-based Centre for Energy, Ecology and Development, pointed out that climate scientists had a decade ago warned of the consequences of limiting global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees, adopting the Paris Climate Agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Ragasa\u2019s trail of devastation across the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and parts of mainland China has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[112953,1724,64,63,22226,112956,112951,112959,512,14245,112952,40185,112960,75,112957,10340,112958,4805,49035,63315,277,49944,112955,128,5811,49036,5813,112954,11069,3725],"class_list":["post-173722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-anjal-prakash","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bangkok","tag-ben-clarke","tag-bharti-institute-of-public-policy","tag-centre-for-energy","tag-china","tag-climate-central","tag-daniel-gilford","tag-east-asia","tag-ecology-and-development","tag-environment","tag-gerry-arrances","tag-hong-kong","tag-indian-institute-of-tropical-meteorology","tag-indonesia","tag-manila","tag-paris-climate-agreement","tag-philippines","tag-prabowo-subianto","tag-ragasa","tag-science","tag-seoul","tag-south-china-sea","tag-south-korea","tag-stockholm-environment-institute","tag-taiwan","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}