Extinction expert paints bleak picture of flooded Earth due to rising seas.
In an effort to raise awareness of the need for action to counter climate change, US paleontologist and best-selling science author Dr. Peter Ward of the University of Washington has taken a unique approach in his most recent book, “Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps.”
Dr. Ward, who has extensively researched previous mass extinction events on Earth, describes through a series of graphic vignettes the dangers that could befall civilization from sea levels rising as he helps readers envision their potential Earthly devastation.
He warns that at current rates of global warming, even if human-made carbon dioxide emissions were halted today, oceans would still increase a meter by 2050. In fact, over time sea levels could rise by 20 meters or more, triggering such disasters as massive emergency migrations and epidemics of tropical disease.
In one of the book’s scenarios, the city of Miami in Florida, USA is described as having become an island where fresh water must be collected in swimming pools during hurricanes and septic systems no longer function due to the overwhelming sea level rise.
Many thanks, Dr. Peter Ward, for your creative application of scientific insights to help people understand the consequences of inaction. Let us all awaken to the need for rapid action toward sustainable lifestyles to save our precious world. Supreme Master Ching Hai has often reminded of the need to protect our planet from the imbalances caused by global warming, as in the following March 2009 videoconference in California, USA.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: How can we take measures to protect, not from rising sea levels, but also all the similar consequences of global warming? See? When the sea level rises, there will be more mosquitoes and diseases.
Being vegan is our top priority because this provides the most immediate cooling through actions that can be taken by individuals because we are a big group on the planet. Carbon removal is also good and acts fairly quickly, but being veg is something that every single person in the world can do and immediately.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128290660 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2012083437_br11flooded.html http://objectivistindividualist.blogspot.com/2010/06/peter-ward-flooded-earth.htmlA new set of laws in Malaysia impose more stringent penalties, including possible prison sentences, to better protect endangered animals such as the Sumatran rhinoceros and the clouded leopard, while additional wildlife has also been included in the list of protected species.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/flora--fauna/Malaysia-to-punish-wildlife-poachers-more-severely-/articleshow/6197296.cmshttp://news.mongabay.com/2010/0520-hance_wildlifelaw.htmlThe National Weather service in United States issues excessive temperature warnings for states from New England to the Deep South, as a second record heat wave brings temperatures of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38395111/ns/weather/http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7573239 In an effort to save the endangered panda species, four expectant mothers are released into the wild in southwestern China so they might give birth and raise their cubs teaching them life skills in the wild.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/pandas-get-lessons-in-survival-skills-20100725-10qhx.htmlhttp://www.france24.com/en/20100725-china-sends-pandas-wild-bring-cubsThe US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has created an online map showing the number, size and relative density of marine dead zones around the world, noted to have increased significantly in a short time from causes such as food crop fertilizers and manure from livestock operations.
http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3239http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44677
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