Archive for the 'sea-level rise' Category
10% of Population Will be Affected by Sea-Level Rise
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell December 1st, 2009 in Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference, climate change impacts, melting Antarctic, sea-level riseOnly a week to go and the climate sceptics seem to be popping up everywhere, trying to undermine the Copenhagen conference.
But what they can’t stop is the damning new credible scientific evidence that is being produced. One such study is from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
The SCAR study was undertaken by 100 of [...]
Expect Catastrophic Warming in Your Life-Time …
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell September 28th, 2009 in Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference, Drought, climate change impacts, famine, floods, impact on wildlife, sea-level riseA 4 C rise and counting. By 2060.
That is the message from the UK Met Office in a study prepared for the British Government. Unless there is a radical action on carbon emissions, a catastrophic four degree rise in centigrade (7.2 F) could happen in many people’s live-times.
That is five decades before most people thought [...]
The Nile Delta: “We are going underwater”
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell August 21st, 2009 in Climate Change, climate change impacts, sea-level riseI am used to writing about the problems of oil and the Niger Delta with its vortex of violence and vulnerability to climate change.
But what about another equally important Delta of Africa: the Nile, arguably once the world’s most famous river.
It too is beginning to suffer from the creeping consequences of our changing climate and [...]
Copenhagen: Australia Accused of Selling-out Pacific Islands
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 7th, 2009 in Australia, Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference, climate change impacts, sea-level riseAustralia has been accused of watering down demands for radical action at the Pacific Islands States conference, that has just finished in Cairns, Australia.
At the start of the conference the Pacific Island states were demanding a 45 per cent cut by 2020 and 85 per cent by 2050.
I am hearing only bad news…
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell March 11th, 2009 in Climate Change, climate change impacts, sea-level riseDoes anyone remember the song written by the pop group, Latin Quarter, called “Radio Africa”, written in the mid-eighties whose repeated starting line was “I am hearing only bad news on Radio Africa”?
That song came back to my mind reading the reports from the climate conference in Copenhagen. I am hearing only bad news from [...]
