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Are we entering the "Waterworld" part of the future? A day when the land mass disappears? Maybe sooner than we thought.
The problem of rising waters is a different version of the example of a frog that is put into a boiling pot of water, the frog jumps right out. A frog then is put into a cold pot of water and the heat is turned up. The frog doesn't realize what's happening and is slowly cooked to death. We are the frog. And the heat is on.
An excerpt follows from the U.N. report.
"In March 2007, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that global warming, if unchecked, would lead to a devastating amalgam of floods, drought, disease and extreme weather by the century end.
The world's oceans would creep up 18 to 59 centimetres (7 to 23 inches), enough to wipe out several small island nations, and wreak havoc for tens of millions living in low-lying deltas in east Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Africa."
It further states that current reports figure the water rise to effect over 600 million people. Glaciers melting, permafrost thawing are two major cause and effects that will affect many in their lifetime.
Oh Oh.
This is serious stuff. We must do more than just rearrange the furniture on the deck of the Titanic. It all counts and it counts now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090310/sc_afp/environmentclimatewarming
2 comments:
There was something on TV on either Discovery or History that actually went in depth on how the gases were breaking through the ocean floor and mixing into our air. Which in turn were changing temperatures along with water levels. It's gonna happen. If people make an effort, it will happen at a slower rate, but history repeats itself.
There was something on Discovery or History that showed how the sea floor was cracking and releasing gases due to rising temperatures. Which, after released into the air, cause more heat and harm. If people try to help, things will happen slower. But, history always repeats itself.
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