Here is their graph, no doubt created by Chicken Little:
Looks like about 8-9cm according to the UN by 2020... still ridiculous!
I wonder what this guy thinks he knows that no one else knows.
Posted on 12/08/2003 1:53:46 AM PST by Swordmaker
Global warming could submerge three large Indian cities
Date: December 8 2003
Global warming could submerge three of India's biggest cities beneath the sea by 2020 unless the crisis was brought under control, an Indian scientist warned yesterday.
"If the warming continues, there will be about half to one metre increase in sea level by 2020 and cities like Bombay, Calcutta and Madras will be completely submerged," said Rajiv Nigam, a scientist with the Geological Oceanography Division in the western Indian state of Goa.
He said a one-metre rise in sea level could cause five trillion rupees ($A147.24 billion) worth of damage to property in Goa alone.
"If this is the quantum of damage in a small state like Goa that has only two districts, imagine the extent of property loss in metros like Bombay," he added at a workshop in the National College in Dirudhy, Tamil Nadu state.
He also predicted that global warming could cause frequent cyclones along the coastal areas and affect the annual monsoon rain, which is crucial for India's farm-dependent economy.
AFP
2020: Three metros will sink
December 6, 2003
Chennai, Dec 6: Here is a disaster prediction. Coastal cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai could go under sea by 2020 at the present levels of global warming and the concomitant rise in sea level, says a Goa-based scientist Dr Rajiv Nigam.
“Studies on sea level changes have gained momentum with global warming that the earth is experiencing now. If the warming continues, there will be about half to one metre increase in sea level by 2020 and cities like Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai will be completely submerged,’’ said Dr Nigam, a scientist with the Geological Oceanography Division, Goa, addressing the two-day UGC-sponsored workshop on current trends in research on ‘Quaternary sea-level changes’ at National College in Tiruchy on Friday.
Predicting that a one-metre rise in sea level along the western coast of Goa could result in damage of properties worth Rs 5,000 billion, Dr Nigam said: “If this is the quantum of damage in a small State like Goa that has only two districts, imagine the extent of property loss in metros like Mumbai.”
The geologist said global warming would also affect the monsoon cycle and increase the amplitude and frequency of cyclones.
Sea level changes could be effectively monitored by studying the shoreline movement indicator, analysing the depth of the sea and studying micro-fossils, he said.
Dr Nigam lamented that there were “inadequacies and gaps” in the quaternary research in India even though the country had a long coastline of about 7000 km.
Delivering his inaugural address, Dr G Victor Rajamanickam, Professor and Head of the Department of Disaster Management, School of Civil Engineering, SASTRA, Thanjavur said that since 60 per cent of world population was concentrated in coastal regions, special disciplines like coastal geology assumed importance in pre-warning and forecasting disasters.
The workshop aimed at “reducing the gap and encouraging researchers to collect evidences, understand the causes, measuring and dating quaternary sea levels.’’
Here is their graph, no doubt created by Chicken Little:
Looks like about 8-9cm according to the UN by 2020... still ridiculous!
I wonder what this guy thinks he knows that no one else knows.
True, but even anthropology and sociology don't get such heaping large piles of federal grants and funding.
I can dream, can't I?
Time to start building those dikes. Or, they could just sit around and whine about it.
According to my research on Rajiv, he has published an article or two on archaeological floods... finding two: 1000BC and 1500BC. You would think he would figure out that floods happen... and so do changes in coastlines.
Maybe India can outsource that to the Netherlands...
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