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Produced by students from Middlebury College, this creative piece shows us what could happen if we don’t find an energy solution.Produced by students from Middlebury College, this creative piece shows us what could... more
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The Maldives is nation of tiny islands in the Indian Ocean. It's not just tiny in square miles, it's also doesn't rise very far out of the sea. That's why government ministers from the Maldives have been doing everything they can to raise awareness about rising sea levels. This weekend, to that end, they held what's being billed as the world's first underwater cabinet meeting.
First Underwater Cabinet Meeting (Video)
This is not the first time the island nation's leaders have attracted world media attention for their plight. In November of last year, newly-elected President Mohamed "Anni" Nasheed made headlines with his plan to buy new land for his people. He said he would set aside $1 billion a year to that purpose.
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The world is changing. Our atmosphere changes and our climate, as a result, does too. But also now, topographically, oru changing climate is beginning to alter our world. For the last few years island nations like the Maldvies have tried to raise awareness of the threat they face because of rising sea levels. And today, user WakeUpPeople clipped this story about global warming and geopolitics: Island disputed by India and Bangladesh has now been claimed by the sea.
Map from FP Passport
New Moore Island (or South Talpatti), has been disputed for over three decades. Now it's simply no longer there. It's only part of the incredible loss of land seen in the Bay of Bengal over the last few years.
Vanguard's Adam Yamaguchi was in Bangladesh three years ago to see how the ocean was literally eating away the country year by year.
The world is changing. Our atmosphere changes and our climate, as a result, does... more
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One of Alaska's most eroded villages wants to revive a lawsuit that claims greenhouse gasses from oil, power and coal companies are to blame for the climate change endangering the tiny community.
The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, filed the case in federal court in San Francisco in 2008, but it was dismissed in October. Now they're appealing to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with their opening brief due March 11.
Oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP PLC are among two dozen defendants named in the lawsuit. Representatives for the two companies declined to comment Thursday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/kivalina-appeals-eroding-_n_441420.htmlOne of Alaska's most eroded villages wants to revive a lawsuit that claims... more
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The polite way of saying, "It's too late to stop global warming, so how are we going cope?
More background information to demystify the climate change debate and reports from the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen can be found at http://www.greendetectives.net/The polite way of saying, "It's too late to stop global warming, so how are... more
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Sea levels could rise by a "catastrophic" 10 feet by the end of the century – putting millions of people at risk of flooding with coastal cities such as London, New York, Tokyo and Calcutta submerged, according to a new study.
The melting of the vast ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland caused water to pour into the world's oceans at an alarming rate at the end of the last period of global warming.
With growing evidence for contributions from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets to sea-level rise, the findings confirm the potential that continuing rapid ice loss could cause disastrous sea-level rise by 2100.
The polar bear in this picture had been hiding on an iceberg from swine flu. Now he's stuck on it floating at sea.Sea levels could rise by a "catastrophic" 10 feet by the end of the century... more
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If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.
Although the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.
But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by
Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.
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Is it just me or do these British people actually have a clue. Our media didn't do a story on this?
American media is bought and paid for, but the UK Telegraph seems to know better.
Many people here, on current, like to flaunt the idea of global warming (climate change), but so much evidence is pointing to the opposite. Global warming is a LIE, so be a Brit and get a clue.If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must... more
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The planet could face a freeze worse than an ice age starting in as little as 10,000 years, giving future societies a headache the opposite of coping with global warming.The planet could face a freeze worse than an ice age starting in as little as 10,000... more
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