. . . La. losing a land mass equivalent to 30 football fields every day.

[ensho]

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/climatesos/2009/12/2009121454853960408.html


Hungry tides in India's Sundarbans


As global leaders from both rich and developing nations wind down the debate over climate change in Copenhagen, Sheikh Aftauddin, a 65-year-old climate migrant from a submerged island on India's Sundarbans archipelago, continues to live in uncertainty.

One of the nearly 8,000 climate change refugees in the Indian Sundarbans, Aftauddin says they are unaware what is being debated in Copenhagen.

All he knows is how the fury of nature devoured his hut and farmlands on the Goramara island, one of the many submerged by the rising sea, forcing him to live as a refugee in another area.

"The sea took away everything. My house, my land. It is painful to live uprooted but I have no choice," says Aftauddin who now lives on Sagar Island, part of the Sundarban archipelago and 150km south of Kolkata.

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Climate change is also threatening the famous Royal Bengal tiger population of the Sundarbans archipelago.

(wonder if the tigers will be refugees to in order to save them?)
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and

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/climatesos/2009/12/20091278368975161.html

Kashmir's climate frontline

"We used to have good money in saffron," says Ali Mohammed, a weathered 46-year-old farmer, as he looks over the fields of purple flowers ready for the autumn harvest in Indian-administered Kashmir. "But now no rain for months, bad saffron crop this year."

Used as a spice and for medicinal purposes, saffron has been grown in Kashmir for millennia. Mohammed's family have farmed the crop for five generations, but as the weather patterns in Kashmir change, they wonder how much longer their business can survive.

(they have just started growing saffron in Afghanistan)

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The thousands of glaciers in the Western Himalaya Mountains that wind through Kashmir are receding as fast as any on the planet, melting due to increased temperatures.

This causes heavy flooding in the region, which is followed by drought during critical planting times. The early glacier melt, combined with a decrease in rainfall and snowfall, directly affects farmers like Mohammed.

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"The increase in temperatures will also have an effect on drinking water, irrigation, and hydropower," he says.

Dr. Jim Jarvie heads the Climate Unit at Mercy Corps, an international aid agency. "Countries around the world who find themselves dependent on glacial water systems will have two interrelated shocks in store," he says.
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and

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/12/2009121225338198982.html


Rising waters threaten Louisiana


The southern coast of Louisiana in the United States is among the fastest disappearing areas in the world.

Rising waters have led to the state losing a land mass equivalent to 30 football fields every day.

And as the communities disappear, more and more people are leaving the region.

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lets take the above information and shove it up Rep. Joe Barton's behind

[lapfog_1]

1. I want to build a special tank.

probably about the size of one or two football fields.

About 8ft deep.

Every climate denier would have a platform to stand on which would allow their mouths to be about 1cm above the level of the water in the tank. However, the tank's water level would be tied to the average sea height around the world. There would be video screens all around the tank that would show live feeds from cameras placed at the mouths of glaciers and the land based ice packs in places like Greenland.

They can then yammer all they want about the "hoax" or "it's natural" or "it's really good for us".

Oh, did I mention that their feet would be encased in concrete.

[Louisiana1976]

2. Hah! Good outside-the-box thinking!