Authors
Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young have written a book called “The Rising Sea”
that forecasts much higher sea levels than previously suggested. Dr.
Pilkey is Professor emeritus at Duke University in the USA and Dr.
Young is Professor of geosciences at Western Carolina University.
Through their combined expertise, they point out, for instance, that
although the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) estimated a two-foot rise by the end of the century, this did
not include ice melt from Greenland or the Antarctic.
Moreover,
in the two years since the IPCC report was released, increasing
evidence points to accelerating melt in both those locations, with many
climate scientists now saying that the melting of the Greenland Ice
Sheet will be one of the main drivers of sea level rise during this
century.
Drs. Pilkey and Young go on to state that the
ramifications of rising oceans are enormous: Agriculture will be
disrupted, water supplies salinized, storms and flood waters will reach
ever further inland, along with the creation of millions of
environmental refugees.
Drs. Pilkey and Young, our thanks for
this updated forecast, despite its dire implications. May governments
realize the gravity of lobal warming and act now to save our planet.
During
a March 2009 videoconference for the Juice Fast for Peace in
California, USA, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the emerging crisis
of rising sea levels, highlighting the most effective and indeed only
solution.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Where are we going with this kind of rising levels? Even if we dig a
hole… Nowadays, they have something like the tube ready for you, like a
room, and then you can put it in the earth to protect yourself from
climate change, from gases and all that, but how can we protect
ourselves in this case when the sea level rises 70 meters and buries
everything in its wake? And no more food, no more agriculture, nothing!
No animals even to eat. Even if we want to eat meat, there will be
nothing left for us. We have to change to a vegan diet, animal-free
diet. Animal industry must be out. That’s it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/15/sea-level-climate-change http://islandpress.org/bookstore/details.php?prod_id=1760
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