Author: Joe Ascanio
Website: http://www.terracurve.com/2009/12/01/which-cities-are-in-the…
We know the basic idea: global warming melts polar ice, sending swells of ocean water toward our shores – and after becoming engulfed in an entirely blue world, people grow gills and are somehow turning pee into drinking water.
Sounds crazy? Of course it does – thank you, Kevin Costner. But the basic idea of entire cities across the world becoming well beyond waterlogged is, in fact, a reality. And a scary one at that.
According to measurements by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), rising sea levels will be a huge threat to even the most advanced cities - not to mention small, island nations – with predicted levels twice as high as originally thought.
If global temperatures continue to increase at the current rate, by the year 2100 island nations such as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and Tuvalu in the Pacific would be entirely engulfed by ocean waters, while rising levels will devastate coastal cities such as Calcutta and Dhaka.
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