MANILA, Philippines — At least one prediction about climate change has come true or is coming true. Those huge earthquakes in the Visayas are yet another proof of our vulnerability to natural disasters. Are we so poor, so undisciplined, or just so geographically unstable?

Quoting scientific reports, Neric Acosta, presidential adviser for environmental protection, told Bulong Pulungan that disasters wrought by climate change will visit this country “10 to 20 times this year” – the good news being that 20 puts us behind last year’s toll of 33 disasters, which was why we landed on top of the world’s list of major catastrophes (followed by China’s 26).

The bad news is that Secretary Acosta felt compelled to warn that “Cebu will be the next Sendong,” just as Roxas City could experience so much flooding that the seafood capital will not be able to keep its head above water; Boracay “will split in two”; Puerto Princesa will not be completely safe. Nor will the land of the Ampatuans be spared.

Mr. Acosta is himself undergoing a kind of climate change – suspended beginning yesterday for 90 days as GM of the Laguna Lake Development Authority over a 12-year-old case. Laguna Lake is 95,000 hectares, by the way, large enough to contain10 Singapores, but more on that on Saturday.