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Posts Tagged ‘sea level’
Climate Change, Natural disasters, Science & Technology, Jun 25th, 2012,
The seminal California hardcore punk band Youth Brigade sang “I’ll sink with California when it falls into the sea” way back in the 1980s. And they weren’t singing about sea level rise or climate change, but seismic activity that will eventually cause a large portion of the Golden State to break off along fault lines like the famed San Andrea. What residents have long referred to as “the Big One”, meaning a massive earthquake, could result in parts of California “drifting” into the ocean and becoming submerged. Something like that, anyway. Read a better, more detailed explanation here. But sea…
Tags: California, san andreas, sea level, sinking
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Sep 8th, 2010,
Geo-engineering doesn’t prevent at all the rise of the tides. Engineering on a global scale is not a solution, even in an emergency, to the climate damage caused by human activities. This is the conclusion reached by a team of British, Chinese and Danish researchers after a new study on the future of the Earth’s oceans. In their opinion there is no escape: sea levels will rise at least 30-70 cm by the end of 2100, even using the latest weather manipulation techniques. Substituting geo-engineering for the control of emissions would create an enormous risk for future generations, according to…
Tags: Climate change, global warming, sea, sea level, water
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Apr 19th, 2010,
The death toll from the earthquakes that struck western China last Wednesday has passed 1,700. The quakes occurred in Qinghai province, a mainly Tibetan region of the country; and resulted in 1,706 deaths and 12,128 injured with 256 still missing according to a piece in Sunday’s Guardian. Yesterday, China’s president Hu Jintao visited Qinghai and promised a swift rebuilding of the area, where Tibetan Buddhist monks have been conducting an impressive rescue and relief effort. The Guardian article also mentions that some suspect human activity may have played a role in the earthquakes: Many blamed Chinese mining for causing the…
Tags: activity, China, Climate change, disaster, earthquakes, geological, global warming, Guardian, human, landslides, monks, Qinghai, quakes, sea level, seismic, Telegraph, Tibetan, tsunamis, volcanoes
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 15th, 2009,
In correspondence to the UN summit in Copenhagen, NBC News has begun a new series of segments documenting the front lines of climate change: A Perfect Storm – Climate Change and Conflict. Located on the world’s largest river delta, Bangladesh has always been vulnerable to flooding, but climate change and resultant rising sea levels are making it all the more so. As usual, it is the poor who suffer the most. The symptoms of climate change in Bangladesh include population displacement, farmlands destroyed by salt water and regional political instability. Watch the video report from msnbc.com embedded below and read…
Tags: Bangladesh, Climate change, NBC, news, sea level
Climate Change, Nov 4th, 2009,
The London Times reports that the ‘Australian way of life’ is under threat due to rising sea levels. Recently named as the world’s worst per capita emitter of greenhouse gasses, Australia’s population lives overwhelmingly on its coasts. The country also has a very urban population, with all its major cities located on the coastline, mostly on the southeast or ‘Boomerang Coast’. This makes the country especially vulnerable to coastal erosion and flooding from rising sea levels. Australia’s Lower House Environment Committee reports that ‘for each 1cm rise in sea level, the shoreline could be pushed back by 1m’ according to…
Tags: australia, Climate change, coast, global warming, sea level
