Comments on: The Worlds First Climate Change Refugees

By: Deeply Concerned

Deeply Concerned — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:16:25 +0000

I’m that policital grandstanding will get in the way of taking action and making the right choices.

The election result in Australia over the weekend could be seen as a victory for short-termism and a loss for our future.

We can’t afford to let short term pain in petrol prices take our eye off the ball. Given the opportunity, politicians will encourage us to do this for short term political gain, and we’ll all be worse off for it.

It’s time to cut through the spin.

By: ericmclamb

ericmclamb — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:19:47 +0000

Is this not part of Earth’s continuing evolution and change? There is no doubt that man’s activities have had an impact on global warming, the question is, can we adapt?

By: kcp

kcp — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:00:03 +0000

All too often we hear about the potential impact of rising sea levels, as if it might become a problem at some point in the future. Kiribati is but one example that it is already a problem and one that will only worsen. Along the same lines, Johann Hari has a first-hand account in the Independent, about the impact of rising sea levels in Bangladesh.

Deep below the ground of Munshigonj and thousands of villages like it, salt water is swelling up. It is this process – called "saline inundation" – that killed their trees and their fields and contaminated their drinking water. Some farmers have shifted from growing rice to farming shrimp – but that employs less than a quarter of the people, and it makes them dependent on a fickle export market. The scientific evidence shows that unless we change now, this salt water will keep rising and rising, until everything here is ocean.