Don't Be Stupid

THE AGE OF STUPID - coming to a town near you?

SNOW PEOPLE AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING

A New Home in the World

Paradise almost lost: Maldives seek to buy a new homeland

"The highest land point on the Maldives is only 2.4 metres above sea level."

Read about it here.

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Eat less of this....

Or risk a lot more of this?

HURRICANE GUSTAV HIT CUBA LIKE AN ATOMIC BOMB

STORM HIT HAITIANS STARVE ON ROOFTOPS

Alternatively, have a vegetarian teenage daughter and the barrage of guilt-inducing comments every time you sneak the occasional bacon sandwich will reduce your meat intake no end...

But as the above shows, she's right. As always.

BANGLADESH IS SINKING

The facts about climate change in Bangladesh are grim, especially for the some of the poorest people on Earth, the char-dwellers who inhabit river islands made of silt; a strange, precarious space between land and water.

"I wonder how these islanders cope with this shifting terrain; how they can bear to know that the place they are living in today may not exist tomorrow. I want to know because more and more people in Bangladesh will suffer the same lot, as the sea creeps up; and because, in the not so distant future, this may be the fate of humanity worldwide."

"In the next 50 years, 17% of Bangladesh's landmass is sure to go underwater, causing more than 30 million people to become homeless. Those who live further inland will be only slightly better off: the cyclones and floods that are already a feature of the weather will occur more frequently and with greater ferocity. Geological events stimulated by changes in temperature will mean intense pulses of rainfall followed by periods of drought, and a potential collapse of the monsoon cycle itself."

Do read Losing The Ground Beneath Their Feet.

It's not anything to do with us, silly...

The majority of the British public doesn't believe that climate change is caused by humans - and many others think scientists are exaggerating the problem.

Yet a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change found a 90 per cent chance that humans were the main cause of climate change. Drastic action, they said, was needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

'The scientific evidence for climate change is clear and it is down to human activities. It is already affecting people's lives - and the impact will be much greater if we don't act now.' So says the Department for the Environment. But what would they know?
Read the full article here.

Kiribati's King Tide on Youtube

Click here to watch the desperate plight of the islanders of Kiribati as the sea rises and surges to their doors in a King Tide....

(Just ignore the stupid comments section.)