Rising sea salinates India's Ganges river

"Moving of the lands, ceasing of the shore, does anybody realized that changing the horizon is like a season? But humidity is real when climate changes are being destroyed because of chemical reactions...

Reactants to the sky and to the nature of the sea varies according to the chemical content that is being absorbed.

How many Coal-fired Power Plant are there in the world that sometimes did not follow the true evolution of proper chemical waste disposal?

Just thinking the evolution of the Earth that affects the ocean breeze, sometimes they hated the Government but the people of the Universe affects the evolution itself according to what they desire."-jb

i ask this with the depest respect,whare can we have our voices heard , i can see
you put a huge efort into current ,that dose not go unnoticed , i hear you and i am greatfull for your efort , can we (the internet public) transform our eforts to a on the ground efect, i belive we can,by cordanating on the internet and building some sort of ,mobile hot shot team ,for strengthening comunitys , it could be filmed , help them form local co-ops that they the comunity could serve their own needs.
just brain storming, what are your thoughts?
thanks for your time jan

I don't recall using any other pronoun in my post but WE. I don't need to be told that WE must be doing what we can. So none of the fingers I may point is hypocritical. I and many others walk the talk which is why we have the moral authority to hold politicians accountable. It is they who have the "power" to pass the laws that regulate GHGs and also implement OUR suggestions, and they should be held accountable for doing so. And it is GLOBAL which is why we need a GLOBAl climate treaty that recognizes where we are and where we need to go.

madscientwist,

Most people that post on these issues do what they can as individuals to lessen the impact they have on our environment. Plus, some even actively write letters, participate in marches, etc.

The politicians need to listen because they have the ability to pass the laws, rules and regulations needed to make the changes.

You have to be a f*cking retard if you think that any politician has the ability to stop this. This is GLOBAL! The actions we take now will not be evident for many years to come. We are too late, and now we are just along for the ride. Quit blaming politicians for everything that doesn't seem right in this world. Start taking actions yourself. You don't have any room to complain about others if you yourself don't recycle. Take personal actions to help the earth, don't point your hypocritical finger.

Don't worry, we'll just wait for another Kyoto. We've all seen how successful that political stunt was.

fear has no enriching out come , it paralizes thought and creativity, we need solutions like ,build a core vocabulary
around ; eficency,integrety and comunity if we build a conversation out frome these words we can truely change the world .

We can slow it down though. Preventative measures are exactly what we must have now. Alternate energy is one of them. We cannot continue to burn coal and oil at our present pace. That is not feasible. We have to cut emissions and the US is the country that should be leading that call, and yes, as well as China, Austraila, and other countries that emit the most GHGs. To continue at the present pace unabated will simply bring this on even faster. We cannot morally allow that to happen if we still have the time, ability and resources to do something.

We already have technologically everything we need to cut emissions by 80% by 2020, and perhaps even get 100% of our electricity from renewable resources in ten years. That will go a long way in keeping it from the doomsday scenario scientists predict will come within this century if we don't get our act together now. But I do understand the points you make, and at times do believe the only thing that will make people really move is to see the Ross ice shelf fall into the ocean.

We're doomed. Too late. All things are connected. No where to run and no where to hide. Time to look up those recipes for your pets. Fatten up the cat. Fat cat takes on a whole new meaning.

What is that game show? "What tastes allot like chicken"? But there will always be a Super Bowl.

Captain B.

I think that it is ridiculous that we think that we can stop global warming by recycling and not using fossil fuels here in the US. I agree that it sends a message and starts going in the right direction, but the fact is that the only way out of this mess is to invent our way out. With India and China, and Russia and all the other countries that are burning fossil fuels, we are just fooling ourselves.

The reality is that this earth is going to get 10-15 degrees hotter in the next 50 years. We need to start preparing for that too. Preventative measures are long, long gone and ineffective.

thanks for raising awareness jan

More starvation ahead.
And you're right about how politicians would be moving their butts if it were Florida or NY that were being swallowed up by rising sea levels.
Man, in his arrogance, just figures that "We'll find a way to build better walls to hold back the water."
HA!

Awesome, move it before you lose it!

From the article:

Rising sea levels are causing salt water to flow into India's biggest river, threatening its ecosystem and turning vast farmlands barren in the country's east, a climate change expert warned Monday.

A study by an east Indian university in the city of Kolkata revealed surprising growth of mangroves on the Ganges river, said Pranabes Sanyal, the eastern India representative of the National Coastal Zone Management Authority (NCZMA).

"This phenomenon is called extension of salt wedge and it will salinate the groundwater of Kolkata and turn agricultural lands barren in adjoining rural belts," said Sanyal, an expert in global warming.

Sea levels in some parts of the Bay of Bengal were rising at 3.14 mm annually against a global average of 2 mm, threatening the low-lying areas of eastern India.

Climate experts warned last year that as temperatures rise, the Indian subcontinent -- home to about one-sixth of humanity -- will be badly hit with more frequent and more severe natural disasters such as floods and storms and more disease and hunger.

Sanyal and the department of Oceanography at the Kolkata-based Jadavpur University spotted the mangrove plants, a rare phenomenon along the Ganges river belt, where east India's biggest city of Kolkata with 12 million people lies.

"We were surprised over the natural regeneration of mangroves along the river bank in Kolkata and it is worrisome," said Sanyal, who teaches in the university.