Environment Diary #4
This is where you'll post the 4th entry, due November 28.
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Geography 12
Heritage Christian School's Geography 12 Blog
Heritage Christian School's Geography 12 Blog
This is where you'll post the 4th entry, due November 28.
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12:47 PM
16 Comments:
The Next Ice Age Permanent?
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/will-next-ice-age-be-permanent/?ref=science
A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.
In essence, says one of the two authors, Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, the ice age cycles over the past million years are a super-slow-motion variant of the dramatic jostlings recorded by a seismograph in an earthquake before the ground settles into a new quiet state. He and William T. Hyde of the University of Toronto used climate models and other techniques to assess the chances that the world is witnessing the final stages of a 50-million-year transition from a planet with a persistent warm climate and scant polar ice to one with greatly expanded ice sheets at both poles.
Their findings have stirred a lot of skepticism in the community of specialists examining ancient records of past climate changes and how they might relate to variations in Earth’s orbit and orientation toward the Sun and other factors. I’ll be adding some of their reactions overnight (I’m on the road).
The Nature paper goes on to propose that humans, as long as they have a technologically powerful society, would be likely to avert such a slide into a long big chill by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. That doesn’t obviate the need to curb such emissions and the prospect of dangerous climate warming in the short run, Dr. Crowley said. But it is more evidence that like it or not, the future of conditions on Earth is likely to be a function of human actions, whether chosen or not.
The idea that human actions can dominate the climatic influence of things as grand as shifts in a planet’s orbit is hard to grasp, but quite a few climate specialist say it’s pretty clear this is the case. In 2003, I wrote an article exploring when scientists think we’ll slide into the next ice age (the conventional variety). James Hansen of NASA echoed Dr. Crowley, saying that as long as we’re technologically able, we’ll be able to keep the big ice at bay. Strange, wonderful stuff, climate science.
Who:analysis published by "Nature", Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, William T. Hyde of the University of Toronto, James Hansen of NASA
What: The climatic fluctuations are the rotations of a system waiting to settle into a permanent colder state
When: Now and in the near, coming future.
Where: The world, the poles, ice caps
How: Humans, as long as they have a technologically powerful society, would be likely to avert such a slide into a long big chill by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
My Opinion: I think we would be stupid not to try to step in and change what's going on in our world. While adding excess amounts of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere may not be the best way to go and all points in this article may not be the best source of information, I do agree with parts of it and think that we need to find some sort of a mediator to balance out our environment before it's too late (either with global warming or a huge, permanent ice age).
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Winning Video Clips to be used in Green Promotions
Philip Round, Comox Valley Echo
Resource:
http://www.canada.com/comoxvalleyecho/news/community/story.html?id=6d819662-5328-46c2-9584-62930cbfe6aa
Published: Friday, November 21, 2008
Video clips produced by local young film-makers are to be used in the marketing and promotion of 'green' educational initiatives by Comox Valley Regional District.
The clips were the successful entries in the regional district's 'Better Choices, Better Future' video contest, the winners of which were announced this week.
The contest was organized as part of the regional district's ongoing campaign to raise awareness of environmental issues -- water conservation (Water Wise), recycling (Power of R), transit (Take Transit), composting and/or pesticide alternatives (Nature Works).
It was open to youth between 8-12 years of age who live in the Comox Valley or to a classroom with students between the ages of 8-12 in School District 71.
Who: children 8-12 years of age, and Comox Valley Regional District
What: a video contest put out to the youth called “Better Choices, Better Future.”
Where: Comox Valley, or anyone in School District 71
When: November 21(winner announced)
Why: the video contest was used to raise awareness about ‘being green’ and environmental issues such as water conservation, recycling, transit, and composting.
How: The video contest was sent out to the students in Comox Valley to learn about how they can help save the environment, and it was put into a competition format. They appointed winners, and wanted people to compete in order to have good entries into the competition.
My thoughts: I think it is very important to start raising awareness about environmental issues at a young age. A movie contest is a smart way to get children involved, and not only competing, but researching how we can better effect the environment. Movies are a hugely effective feauture in our world today, infact they are everywhere we see. So why not use a tool that will be effective to the world today? Raising a voice at a young age can change the thinking of tomorrow. Overall continuing to raise awareness about the environment in different ways and forms will be able to reach out to the thinking of all types of ages.
Putting a Green-Cap on Garbage Dumps
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/38717
Summary:
Who: Garbage Dumps
What: Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, as waste decays. Putting plants and trees on top of a landfill, a process known as ‘Phytocapping’, could reduce the production and the release of these gases. Despite pressures to lessen landfill usage, it remains the most economical and simplest method of waste disposable. Since biodegration of organic matter occurs most rapidly in the presence of water, Phytocapping is a very inexpensive way to solve this issue because the trees soak up the water preventing the release of greenhouse gases.
Where: Garbage Dumps everywhere. Research is being done at the Department of Molecular and Life Sciences, at Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia.
When: November 24, 2008, 9:39 am
Why: Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, as waste decays. Biodegradation of organic matter in a landfill site occurs most rapidly when water comes into contact with the buried waste. Some conventional approaches to reducing this effect involve placing compacted clay over the top of a landfill to form a cap that minimizes percolation of water into the landfill or install gas collection systems to trap the methane released from the landfill. However, both these methods allow water to get in causing greenhouse gases. So, the Phytocapping method is the most economical and simplest method of waste disposable and it prevents water from reaching the waste so it doesn’t release greenhouse gases. They found that a cap of 1400 mm thickness also reduces surface methane emissions 45% more than a cap half as thick.
How: This issue will be solved when all the garbage dumps switch over to this new, efficient and inexpensive way to clean up our landfills. Phytocapping has so many benefits, which include, cutting in half the cost of landfill remediation and providing biodiversity corridors along which wild species can travel. The process also inverts the aesthetic qualities of landfills adjacent to urban communities, and in some cases, introduces economical benefits such as timber and fodder.
My Opinion: This is such a quick and easy, not to mention inexpensive, solution to greenhouse emissions. It has so many benefits, from helping the economy to helping animals. It is inconceivable to think why garbage dump owners would not switch to this method. Its quick, its easy and its very beneficial.
-Ashleigh Miller
Andrei Eremia
Hurricanes: The Greatest Storms on Earth
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Hurricanes/
Who: Steve Graham and Holli Riebeek
What: The Hurricane
When: November 1, 2006
Where: All around the world.
Why: Few things in nature can compare to the destructive force of a hurricane. Called the greatest storm on Earth, a hurricane is capable of annihilating coastal areas with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour or higher, intense areas of rainfall, and a storm surge. In fact, during its life cycle a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs!
How: Hurricanes form over tropical waters (between 8 and 20 degrees latitude) in areas of high humidity, light winds, and warm sea surface temperatures [typically 26.5 degrees Celsius (80 Fahrenheit) or greater]. These conditions usually prevail in the summer and early fall months of the tropical North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans, and for this reason, hurricane “season” in the northern hemisphere runs from June through November.
Opinion: The hurricanes are considered the worst storms on earth because they contain many destructive elements such as sustained winds of 155 miles per hour or higher, intense areas of rainfall which result in flooding. The Hurricanes have major impacts on society's by major death count, severe land damage from flooding and high winds. They can destroy entire homes, even small villages like you would find off the South American Coast.
Declining Number Of Tigers
http://www.globalissues.org/article/177/nature-and-animal-conservation#DecliningNumberofTigers
Who- Tigers of the world
What -The population of tigers in the last century has declined by 95 percent and some fear that they will be extinct by 2010.
when - September 07.2008
Where -The Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers are already classified as extinct.
Why -Tiger bone is in high demand for Chinese medicine and medicine containing tiger parts have been in demand in other parts of the world.
How - poaching, illegal trading of animal furs
My Opinion- These tigers and other animals quite like it should not go unnoticed. We need to crack down on these poachers and illegal traders, just like mighty Joe young. Yes sustaining the environment is important but what is the point in sustaining it if there is no life no live in it.
Rescued Pilot Whales join larger pod off shore.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27866186/
Who: Pilot whales
What: THey have joined a larger pod offshore
When: Nov. 24, 2008
where:Tasmania
why: Their pod was beached and the survivors joined another pod
how:they swam, out to sea, and met another pod, who they joined.
My opinion: I think it's terrible that the pod was beached but I'm glad that a small number survived and were accepted into another pod.
Since Pilot whale numbers are declining it's a relief some survived.
above post is by Jesse
Environmental Article Summary #4
Rebekah McMurphy
November 27th, 2008
Geography 12
Is removing the salt from ocean water a feasible fix for the world’s shortage of fresh water ?
http://environment.about.com/od/bio
diversityconservation/a/desalination.htm
Written by : Nora Jones (Sydney, Australia)
Who: The World Health Organization.
What: Fresh water scarcity is already posing major problems for more than a billion people around the world, mostly in arid developing countries.
When: By mid-century, its predicted that four billion of us (nearly two-thirds of the world’s present population) will face severe fresh water shortages. With human population expected to expand another 50 percent by 2050, resource managers are always looking for new methods to alternate scenarios for the quenching of the world’s growing thirst.
Where: Analysts expect the worldwide market for desalinated water to grow significantly over the coming decade.
Why: Because of the water shortage in the world. Ocean desalination hides the growing water supply problem instead of focusing on water management and lowering water usage. How: By Desalination, a process whereby highly pressurized ocean water is pushed through tiny membrane filters and distilled into drinking water. It is being held forth by some as one of the most promising solutions to the problem, but it also has many economic and environmental costs.
My Opinion: I think it’s actually a really good idea to be able to make fresh clean water. However it does horrible things for the environment, and it’s the most expensive form of fresh water out there, given the infrastructure costs of collecting, distilling and distributing it.
Desalinated water costs at least five times as much to harvest as other sources of fresh water. And will kill many organisms in the oceans, and effect there environment. But I think my care for people dominates, I would rather have poor countries have good fresh water to keep them healthy and disease free.
Jamie fielder
Six consecutive named storms struck the U.S. mainland — most ever
2:59 p.m. PT, Wed., Nov. 26, 2008
WASHINGTON - The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, appears to have attained Olympian heights, setting at least five weather records in the United States and Cuba.
"It was pretty relentless in a large number of big strikes," said Georgia Tech atmospheric sciences professor Judith Curry. "We just didn't have the huge monster where a lot of people lost their lives, but we had a lot of damage, a lot of damage."
Data on death and damage are still being calculated.Three records showed the hurricane season's relentlessness. Six consecutive named storms — Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike — struck the U.S. mainland, something that had not been seen in recorded history. It's also the first time a major hurricane, those with winds of at least 111 mph, formed in five consecutive months, July through November. And Bertha spun about for 17 days, making it the longest lived storm in July.
Fay hit Florida four times
Two records involve storms hitting the same places repeatedly. Rain-heavy Fay was the only storm to hit the same state — Florida — four times, leaving heavy flood damage in its wake. A record three major hurricanes smacked Cuba: Gustav, Ike and Paloma.
Upper air currents helped storms get bigger and focused them into a few places — Cuba and the U.S. Gulf Coast — said Gerry Bell, the top hurricane forecaster at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center. Five of the six storms that hit the United States this season struck the Gulf Coast.
And that repeat-tracking of storms to the same place — and with it increased likelihood of landfall — is typical of years when the hurricane season is on overdrive, like this year, Bell said.
This year wasn't the busiest ever. It merely tied for the fourth most named storms in history with 16. The 2005 season shattered all records with 28 tropical storms and hurricanes.
The 2008 season was busy largely because of the natural cycles of high and low storm activity that last anywhere from 25 to 40 years.
"This one started in 1995. Based on the historical record, we're right in the middle of an active era," Bell said.
Average is 11 named storms
An average season has 11 named storms, six of which become hurricanes. This year there were eight hurricanes, of which five -Bertha, Gustav, Ike, Omar and Paloma — became major hurricanes.
Three of those — Gustav, Ike and Paloma — made "extreme" Category 4, where winds have to be at least 131 mph. "That's a lot," Bell said. "But it's typical of a very active season such as what we saw."
Summery
Who: Cuba U.S.A and Hurricanes
What: Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, appears to have attained Olympian heights, setting at least five weather records. Three records showed the hurricane season's relentlessness. Six consecutive named storms — Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike — struck the U.S. mainland, something that had not been seen in recorded history. It's also the first time a major hurricane, those with winds of at least 111 mph, formed in five consecutive months, July through November. And Bertha spun about for 17 days, making it the longest lived storm in July.
When: Five consecutive months, July through November. And Bertha spun about for 17 days, making it the longest lived storm in July.
Where: Cuba and U.S.A- Florida
Why: It was hurricane season and upper air currents helped storms get bigger and focused them into a few also winds have to been 131 mph. This year's large number of Category 4 storms indicates a "signal" of global warming. But Bell said the science is not quite clear on that.
How: All of the hurricanes have already struck and died so essentially it is over until next years season. We can help by donating money to those that have been effected by the storms and donating to scientific research to help understand and therefore protect us from more to come.
Opinion: My opinion on this subject is that it is very unfortunate that these storms have been so severe and plentiful we cant prevent the hurricanes or direct them where we want to go so all we can do is try predicting them earlier and staying on top of them so as many people as possible can move out of there destructive path. And also by past generated hurricanes learn where they develop so we can try to dissolve them before they turn into an unstoppable beast.
Got a spare Earth anywhere?
http://www.canadaka.net/link.php?id=39109
"If the world continues to pillage and plunder Earth's natural resources at the rate we are now, by 2030 we will need two planets to support us.
If everyone on Earth consumed the equivalent resources of Canadians, it would take three Earths to meet the demand.
Since the late 1980s, we have been in overshoot -- meaning our ecological footprint has exceeded Earth's biocapacity to sustain our rate of consumption -- by about 30%
These are just some of the stark warnings sounded in the WWF's latest Living Planet Report, released last month and co-authored by the Zoological Society of London and The Global Footprint Network, and published biannually.
"We are borrowing from our children to live beyond our means and our children will pay the price," said Gerald Butts, president of WWF Canada.
What's happening is simple: Earth's regenerative capacity can no longer keep with demand, the report says.
"People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources."
In financial terms -- a language skeptics and laggards like to evoke when sounding off on the environment -- humanity is no longer living off nature's interest, but drawing down its capital.
In 2005, the global ecological footprint was 17.5 billion global hectares (gha), or 2.7 gha per person -- also described as the world-average ability to produce resources and absorb wastes. But on the supply side, biocapacity was 13.6 billion gha, or 2.1 gha per person.
New this year is also a water footprint index, which measures the world's consumption of fresh water resources. While water isn't considered a scarce resource globally, polluted waters, uneven distribution and availability are contributing to water stresses experienced by 50 countries.
Not only are we "borrowing from our children," but humans are blatantly stealing resources from other species who share this planet with us.
Since 1970, there's been a 30% decline in nearly 5,000 populations of 1,686 animal species, the report found. Deforestation and land conversions in the tropics, dams, diversions, climate change, pollution and over-fishing are killing species off, the reverberations of which are felt along the food chain.
In 2005, the single largest demand humanity put on the biosphere was -- no surprise here -- the carbon footprint, which grew more than 10-fold from 1961.
Summary
Who: The Earth, and all life who inhabit it
What: We are consuming all of Earth's resources at such an alarming rate that by 2030 we will need two Earth's to support us
When: November 15, 2008
Where: The whole Earth
Why: The Earth can no longer support us at the rate we are using up resources. Its regenerative capacity can no longer keep up with us. We have exceeded the Earth's biocapacity to accommodate our way of living by 30%.
How: If nothing is done, and we continue to consume so much of Earth’s resources at such a fast rate, we all will be in trouble. We are already experiencing the effects of global warming etc, and things are only going to get worse, unless we all pull together and try to make a difference and reverse what has been done
My Opinion: This just goes to show just how much we do consume. We always need more and more and can’t seem to be content with what we have. It’s pretty crazy, but not very surprising; that at the rate we are consuming, it would take two Earth’s to support us. It’s good that the realization of what is being done is slowly getting out there, though there is still a lot that needs to be done. Hopefully as time progresses we will be able to put our consumer lifestyles to rest and start working to make the world better.
Evan
Waste Management:
In addition to releasing gases and particles into the atmosphere, humans produce waste that is dumped on the environment. Often, this waste is hazardous and dangerous to both nature and human life.
The levels of dangerous wastes continue to grow. Industries and individuals continue to be largely unaware of this major environmental problem.
As a result, many people and industries are failing to prevent the creation of hazardous waste or to limit the negative effects it produces.
Individuals often throw out goods without realizing that they are headed for a landfill and could be dangerous for the environment. No matter where people put these hazardous waste materials, there is always a chance that they could find their way into the ground, and eventually into our bodies.
Corporations usually want to avoid the costs associated with having to limit creation of hazardous waste. Consequently, they build landfills on site and fill them with waste, or sometimes pay to have their waste removed. Often, hazardous materials are transported to areas that accept money to take the waste.
It may prove very difficult to reduce hazardous waste in the future. Unlike many other environmental problems, waste creation is something people do not often think about.
In the future, people may have to reduce not only their generation of hazardous waste, but also their consumption of many products that end up in landfills.
What: Landfills are the cause that lead to health issues and major environmental problems.
How: Many huge industrial companies are the cause of many of the hazardous wastes that landfills try to deal with.
When: Sunday 27 April 2008
My opinion: Waste Management should be takes way more seriously today. Many landfills should take more care of how they discard waste.
Amazon Deforestation Trend on the Increase
http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/38755
Brasilia, Brazil: Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures released yesterday by the country's space agency INPE.
Commenting on the figures, Brazilian environment minister Carlos Minc confirmed that the government will on Monday announce forest related carbon emission reduction targets, which will link halting deforestation to the national climate change campaign.
From August 2007 to July 2008, Brazil deforested 11,968 square kilometers of forests in the area designated as the Legal Amazon, a 3.8 per cent increase over the previous year and an unwelcome surprise following declines of 18 per cent over the previous period.
From 2003-2004 to 2006-2007, annual deforestation totals from the agency fell from 27,423 km2 to
11,532 km2. There were fears that the current trend could have been worse but for new measures introduced part way through the year when it became apparent that annual deforestation was accelerating towards a possible 15,000 hectare level.
WWF-Brazil has praised in particular restraints on credit for properties not complying with environmental rules on deforestation licenses, legal reserve and permanent preservation areas, strengthened land ownership rules, increased patrolling activity and a sharing of responsibility for halting deforestation with states and municipalities.
“Credit restrain prevents effects linked to illegal land occupation and exploitation (“grilagem”�), which is the main direct and specific cause for deforestation in the Amazon”�, says WWF-Brazil’s CEO, Denise Hamú.
“Nevertheless, we are concerned with such a deforestation which is equivalent to almost 40% the size of Belgium or the size of Jamaica.
“WWF-Brazil favors that which was established in the Amazon Pact for Forest Value Acknowledgement and Deforestation Decrease, which proposes concrete actions and urges the government and society to endeavor all efforts to curb deforestation to zero level in seven years”�.
The Pact was an initiative by a group of NGOs and the proposed actions have an estimate cost of R$ 1 billion (1,000,000,000 reais) per year, which is relatively cheap as compared to the social costs (droughts, floods, deaths, economic difficulties and so forth) inflicted on everyone by deforestation.
WWF-Brazil’s CEO says that it is necessary to adopt a wider conservation strategy. “We favor a definition of clear deforestation mitigation targets, besides economic and fiscal mechanisms to encourage conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources, as well as to discourage predatory practices”�, says Denise Hamú.
WWF Brazil welcomed the forthcoming carbon emission reduction targets, noting that deforestation and forest fires together are responsible for 75% of Brazilian green house gas emissions. The targets add to a range of other new measures announced in October, following preliminary assessments that deforestation rates in August 2008 had reached triple those a year earlier.
“Negligence towards our forests causes Brazil to rank fourth among the larger contributors to the planet warming,”� Hamú said.
The decrease in the Amazon deforestation rate achieved in the last two years shows that it is viable for Brazil to adopt emission curb targets. The adoption of targets to decrease emissions from deforestation could place Brazil in a forefront position for the international climate negotiations due to start in a few days, in Poznan, Poland.
WWF-Brazil’s Conservation Director, Carlos Alberto de Mattos Scaramuzza, explains that actions to fight deforestation must run on four tracks. The first one is the effective protection of forests through creation and implementation of protected areas. Secondly, there is the promotion of sustainable use of natural resources, through forest management capacity building in the Amazon states. Then there are patrolling actions to tackle illegal activity threats which are linked to land property and occupation (“grilagem”�), to agribusiness and to large infrastructure works. Finally, we must have financial offset actions to reward those who protect the forest.
“We acknowledge some positive actions taken by the federal government, but we urge some improvements,”� Scaramuzza said. “In particular, we call for the continuation of the protected areas creation process, the strengthening of implementation efforts in the already created protected areas, the allocation of personnel and their management capacity building, plus the effective implementation of the new forest policy, including forest management capacity development in the Amazon states.”�
The Amazon Fund, created by the government in August 2008, is also an important policy to make financial offset viable for those who protect the forest. Nevertheless, WWF-Brazil claims that funds should be applied in the end of the chain.
“It is crucial that funds reach the field, direct to local communities, land owners and protected areas”�, Scaramuzza said. “We hope that the Amazon Fund implementation will encourage innovation, creativity, experimentation and the involvement of civil society; and that it will be complemented by public funds, instead of being used to fulfill the blanks and gaps in governmental programs”�.
Who: It affects the people around the Amazon; tourism; people resposible for deforestation and the large mega corporations; also the government who is trying to defend and reduce the amount of deforesatation that is going on.
What: The rising want to strip the Amazon from it's current resources.
When: December 1, 2008
Where: The legal Amazon area of Brazil.
Why: Foresting Companies could make lots of money by cutting down trees and selling them.
How: They would take machines to cut the trees down and haul the trees back to town were they would get made into different types of furnitures.
Opinion: I think that the deforestation of the Legal Amazon in Brazil is really bad because the forest is equal to 40% of the size of Belgium or the size of Jamaica, that is huge.
We have resources, but we should not take them all away at once. We should use them gradually, so they will last as longer. Also WWF Brazil says that deforestation and forest fires together are responsible for 75% of Brazilian green house gas emissions! Just by stopping the deforestation of the Legal Amazon in Brazil we would reduce the amount of green house gases produces from Brazil.
Recycling cost more than it saves??
http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/benefit_vs_cost.htm
Who:Tigger Fox
what:recycling cost more than it saves
where:Millinocket, Maine
when:oct.31
why: because the cost of acually recycling somthing may be more expensive because the money you spend rcycling cost more than you save recycling.
how: by running test
my opinion: i think we should just throw the recycling in the garbage because than it saves us money and time.. and GOD is coming anyways. and God will be happy that we didnt waste our time.
Regulators Are Pushing
http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/38845
December 11, 2008 09:54 AM
Who: Giant Blue Fin Tuna
What: International Commission for the Conservation won’t stop overfishing of the Giant Blue Fin Tuna, as they are rapidly disappearing.
Where: Mediterranean
When: December 11, 2008
Why: They are being overfished.
How: Well, it could easily be fixed if the International Commission for the Conservation just told everyone that they couldn’t fish for the Giant Blue Fin Tuna anymore. But apparently, they don’t want to do that.
My Opinion: It could easily be fixed. But stupid humans are selfish, and probably like the taste of that fish, and don’t want to give it up.
- maegan knorr
http://www.armageddononline.org/Sinking-Under-Rising-Seas-Major-Cities-Around-the-World-at-Risk-of-Being-Swamped.html
summary:
Who: Buddist monks
What:At Bangkok's watery gates, Buddhist monks cling to a shrinking spit of land around their temple as they wage war against the relentlessly rising sea. Jutting above the water line just ahead in the Gulf of Thailand are remnants of a village that has already slipped beneath the sea.
Where:Thailand More than one-tenth of the world's population, or 643 million people, live in low-lying areas at risk from climate change, say U.S. and European experts. Most imperiled, in descending order, are China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, the U.S., Thailand and the Philippines.
Why:Global warming
when: now
My opinion: Everyone needs to buy a boat just in case. We could be living on water soon....Wait is all this stuff just bs. Doesnt the rainbow signify that God would never flood the world.
I think that people are naturally worriers i think everyone should just chill out. I hate reading this stuff.
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