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Posted on 09/20/2009 5:27:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PARIS (AFP) – Two-thirds of the world's major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of sinking land and rising seas, according to a study published Sunday.
The new findings, based on satellite images, show that 85 percent of the 33 largest delta regions experienced severe flooding over the past decade, affecting 260,000 square kilometres (100,000 square miles).
Delta land vulnerable to serious flooding could expand by 50 percent this century if ocean levels increase as expected under moderate climate change scenarios, the study projects.
Worst hit will be Asia, but heavily populated and farmed deltas on every continent except Australia and Antarctica are in peril, it says.
On a five-tier scale, three of the eleven deltas in the highest-risk category are in China: the Yellow River delta in the north, the Yangtze River delta near Shanghai, and the Pearl River Delta next to Guangzhou.
The Nile in Egypt, the Chao Phraya in Thailand and the Rhone River delta in France are also in the top tier of danger.
Just below these in vulnerability are seven other highly-populated deltas, including the Ganges in Bangladesh, the Irrawaddy in Myanmar (Burma), the Mekong in Vietnam and the Mississippi in the United States.
These flood plains and others all face a double-barrelled threat, reports the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
On the one side, a range of human activity -- especially over the last half-century -- has caused many delta regions to subside.
Without human interference, deltas naturally accumulate sediment as rivers swell and spread over vast areas of land.
But upstream damming and river diversions ...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
This is obviously the fault of Bush, the GOP and global warming. /sarcasm
Major river deltas - slideshow
http://faculty.gg.uwyo.edu/heller/Sed%20Strat%20Class/Sedstrat6/slideshow_6_1.htm
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Were there actual numbers for the amount of “sea rise”?
Did they actually correlate with the really small numbers that actually represent the rise - (as in millimeters)?
If not, you’re reading bull-Obama - a mix of idiocy whose magnitude transcends even that of Olberman.
Wouldn’t the delta just, like move and still be there? The physics of it change?
The seas aren’t rising any more than 6 inches a year according to the EnviroTards. How much damage could that cause?
/sarc
Why hasn’t Bangladesh gone under yet?
Yah. If the models work in the future...?
Women and minorities next.........
The people are starving to death and as they lose weight, the land rises...........
Golly gee, deltas sinking under the weight of their own deposits.
New findings? That's how the delta regions got built up in the first place.
Geology 101. Interrupt the deposition of sediment, sediment compacts through de-watering, elevation drops.
And they act surprised.
Maybe this will distract them from their global warming lunacy long enough for us to go back to leading normal lives.
Don’t forget pumping out groundwater, too. Santa Clara Valley, a vast alluvial plain, has subsided 13 FEET due to groundwater pumping since 1854.
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