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12Rising sea levels may force people to abandon their homes within decades and the Assembly Government has not taken the urgent action Wales needs, a cross-party report published today warns.
Source: Rising sea levels warning – Wales Online
Date: 11 May 2010
Large areas of countryside around Sandwich, Kent in the UK could become submerged due to rising sea levels, according to Kent environmental campaigner Geoff Meaden.
Dr Meaden said:
“Nearly a third of east Kent is likely to sink below the waves by 2020“
If such a scenario did occur, much of Kent could become submerged, while Thanet would become an island cut off from the mainland.
Source: We’ll be under water by 2020, says expert – Your Thanet
Date: 11 May 2010
Rising sea levels may force people to abandon their homes within decades and the Assembly Government has not taken the urgent action Wales needs, a cross-party report published today will warn.
The warning comes as decision-makers are braced for rising sea levels, more storms and soaring costs from flood damage.
The hard-hitting report warns:
“The current approach to coastal erosion and tidal risk management is not sustainable, particularly in a future where the risks to communities and assets are likely to increase considerably as a consequence of climate change.” (more…)
“If the sea levels keep rising, part of Taiwan’s low-lying western part could be submerged,” said Wang Chung-ho, an earth scientist at Taiwan’s top academic body Academia Sinica.
Mountains cover two thirds of Taiwan, but the heart of the island’s economy is concentrated in the remaining third, which stretches down the west coast and consists mostly of flat land near sea level.
Environmentalists consider the risk too high to ignore, and they point out that it is compounded by the overpumping of groundwater both for traditional agriculture and for fish farming.
This has caused the groundwater level to fall and land to subside below sea level in some coastal areas, experts warn.
Source: Rising sea levels threaten Taiwan – Taipei Times
Date: 8 May 2010
When worshippers built a temple for the goddess Matsu in south Taiwan 300 years ago, they chose a spot they thought would be at a safe remove from the ocean. They did not count on global warming.
Now, as the island faces rising sea levels, the Tungshih township is forced to set up a new temple nearby, elevated by three metres (10 feet) compared with the original site.
Source: Rising sea levels threaten Taiwan – France24
Date: 9 May 2010
There are strong indications that Nigeria has lost some of its islands to the problem of erosion from the Atlantic ocean.
Experts two Fridays ago linked the loss to global warming and climate change-related problems.
The lost islands are in the Delta region, where Nigeria earns about 90 per cent of her foreign exchange revenue.
Source: Nigeria’s Islands Lost To Atlantic Ocean – Guardian
Date: 9 May 2010
Greenland has enough ice to raise world sea levels by 23 feet if it all melted.
A group of experts led by Ian Bartholomew at Edinburgh University in Scotland said the variability was much stronger than earlier observations of glacier movement in Greenland.
The study said GPS satellite measurements of the glacier in south-west Greenland, up to 22 miles inland and at altitudes of up to 3,592 feet, showed that the ice in some places slid at 300 meters per year at peak summer rates.
“Our measurements reveal substantial increases in ice velocity during summer, up to 220 percent above winter background values,” it said.
The scientists said that the summer slide may be linked to melt water seeping under the ice. It did not speculate if the change in speed between summer and winter was part of natural shifts or was influenced by a changing climate.
But they wrote: “In a warming climate, with longer and more intense summer melt seasons, we would expect that water will reach the bed farther inland and a larger portion of the ice sheet will experience summer velocity changes.”
More than 250 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Thursday defended climate change research against “political assaults,” and said that any delay in tackling global warming heightens the risk of a planet-wide catastrophe.
Source: Greenland glacier slides 220 percent faster in summer - Mother Nature Network
Date: 9 May 2010
Rising sea waters have almost submerged a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal that is at the centre of a territorial dispute between India and Bangladesh, news reports said Thursday.
Recent satellite imagery has confirmed that the uninhabited island, known as South Talpatti in Bangladesh and New Moore Island or Purbasha in India, had virtually disappeared, the PTI news agency quoted scientists at Jadavpur University in Kolkata as saying.
Most of the estuarine islands located at the confluence of the Ichhamati and Rai Mangal rivers had disappeared because of rising sea levels, coastal erosion and a spate of cyclones partly caused by global warming, the scientists at the university’s School for Oceanographic Studies said.
PTI quoted sources at the school as saying:
“Satellite images have confirmed that about 90 per cent of the island, about 3 kilometres long and 3.5 kilometres wide, has submerged,”
A study team from the university would be visiting the remaining part of the island to physically assess the situation, they said.
The scientists said several other islands in the region faced a similar fate.
New Moore Island was first noticed in the early 1970s and both Bangladesh and India laid claim to it.
“Decades of negotiations between the two countries could not resolve the dispute,”
Sugata Hazra, director of the School for Oceanographic Studies, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph newspaper.
“Climate change has obliterated the very source of it.”
Hazra said local fishermen had confirmed that the island had been submerged with parts of it emerging for short periods at low tide.
Source: Island disputed by India, Bangladesh disappearing, scientists say – EarthTimes.org
Date: 25 March 2010
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