Posted on 09/02/2007 6:57:39 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
The drastic effects of climate change across the globe are disclosed in a new world atlas.
Cartographers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World have had to re-draw coastlines and reclassify land types because of the effects of global warming.
Since the atlas was last published four years ago, sea levels have lowered in some cases and risen in others while ice caps have shrunk and lakes have almost disappeared.
The atlas's editor-in-chief, Mick Ashworth, said: "We can literally see environmental disasters unfolding before our eyes. We have a real fear that in the near future famous geographical features will disappear forever."
The main culprits, he added, are climate change and ill-conceived irrigation projects.
Some of the changes include:
• The Aral Sea in Central Asia has shrunk by 75 per cent since 1967.
• Lake Chad in Africa has shrunk by 95 per cent since 1963.
• The Dead Sea is 25m lower - the height of five double-decker buses - than it was 50 years ago.
• Sections of the Rio Grande, Yellow, Colorado and Tigris rivers are now drying out each summer. At some times of the year they fail to reach the sea.
• The Bangladesh coastline has had to be withdrawn as more land is lost to the sea as a result of heavier monsoons and rising sea levels.
• Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa has lost more than 80 per cent of its ice cap in the last 100 years.
• The Pacific islands of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuata are all under serious threat from rising sea levels......
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
They can add to their list that much of North America was covered with a mile of ice too... That terrible global warming changed all that...
“The Bangladesh coastline has had to be withdrawn as more land is lost to the sea as a result of heavier monsoons and rising sea levels.”
So... It’s raining less in some areas, and more in others. Couldn’t possibly be cyclic weather patterns. PANIC!
Total deceitful article by this UK bird cage liner.
Most of these water losses are due to obvious IRRIGATION PROJECT WATER DIVERSIONS, having nothing to do with any purported global warming.
From what I have heard about 98 per cent of this is not caused by global warming. But by bad practices like excessive irrigation etc.
Was this done before, or after, the the last scare thirty years ago, when they were concerned about golbal cooling...
Plus, as late as 1811 3/4 of what is now the State of Indiana was covered in a vast inland swamp very similar to the Everglades.
It suddenly drained thereby making it available for settlement. Earlier it had been proposed setting it aside as a vast Indian reservation.
travesty!! the continents are actually moving an inch per year!! or something like that and the moon is getting farther away. Its all a horrible crisis
The Earth is either cooling or warming. There is NO OTHER STATE. Thank God it is now warming.
Now that they've discovered tides, what's next... gravity?
If average sea levels rise in one place, they rise in all, because all oceans are connected. The fact that some sea levels have dropped ANYWHERE utterly demolishes the GW dogma that ice melt is elevating sea levels (and, therefore, we’re all doomed). Let alone the hypothesis that said (nonexistant) GW is human-caused.
The sea levels are going down?
There is such as thing as vertical plate tetonics, but I guess the global warming alarmists (they sure aren't "scientists") haven't figured that out yet. As the weight of these ice caps decreases, the land mass it covers rises vertically, making it appear as if the sea level is going down along it's coast lines.
In other areas, plate shifting causes land masses to rise as well, as seen during the earthquake and tsunami event. Sri lanka and eastern india's coast line was lifted several feet in places, exposing the foundations of previously submerged structures.
As far as ice caps and lakes disappearing and/or receeding, that usually is what happens at the end of an ice age. Amazing that there are fossilized trees and vegetation underneath those ice caps and lakes, and in many cases well preserved tropical tree trunks and vegetation that was fast frozen in time in those ice caps, which are now thawing and drifting down some rivers like driftwood as if they were freshly uprooted by a spring thaw.
Judging by the nature of that vegetation, we have a long ways to go before they earth returns to it's "normal" state before the last ice age buried these northern tropics.
I wonder if Al Gore, the worlds leading scientist on global warming has a explanation for these long buried tropical forrests, and the rhino's, elephants, hippo's tigers and other animals they find under these receding ice caps, sometimes so well preserved that the meat is still edible, and is in fact eaten as it becomes exposed by the local wildlife.
That, however, is something global warming alarmists would rather nobody see and ask questions about.
• The Pacific islands of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuata are all under serious threat from rising sea levels......
Hmm. These last two aren't really cartography redrawings..
With the moon moving further and further away, there will be less gravitational distortion on the crust of the earth and sea’s. Tides will gradually become weaker and weaker, and the earths rotation will keep the earth more round, with that bulge in the middle more stable causing less earth quakes.
Who knows, in time the earth’s wobble may correct itself as well, and the seasons in northern and southern areas will become much less pronounced.
But it won’t happen in 20 years like global warming alarmists claim, and I don’t think it will be a bad thing either. More of the earth will be habitable, and future Stalin’s and Putin’s will no longer be able be able to send people to Siberia for punishment because they’ll be sending them to tropical paradises.
But... I though the floor of the pacific in that region was rising, pushing deeper coral reefs closer to the surface, causing what else? Alarm for the fragile sea life. I do wish all these NGO's would all get together and get their stories straight.
More “rocket science” from NASA:
After a big movement
towards the south from 1981 to 1984, the Sahara retreated
northward about 88 miles during the period from 1985 to 1986,
then, migrated 34 miles back south in 1987. The southern
boundary then retreated northward 62 miles in 1988 before
expanding to the south 46 miles in 1989 and 1990 where it lies
today.
“The fluctuations are determined by the amount and
distribution of the rainfall in the area,” Tucker said.”
Well duh!!!!!!!
Post-glacial rebound
Post-glacial rebound (sometimes called continental rebound, isostatic rebound or isostatic adjustment) is the rise of land masses that were depressed by the huge weight of ice sheets during the last ice age, through a process known as isostatic depression. It affects northern Europe, especially Scotland and Scandinavia, Siberia, Canada, and the Great Lakes of Canada and the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
Caused by Communist irrgation projects.
Lake Chad in Africa has shrunk by 95 per cent since 1963.
Caused by the desertification of the Sahel.
The Dead Sea is 25m lower - the height of five double-decker buses - than it was 50 years ago.
Caused by Israeli and Jordanian irrgation schemes.
Sections of the Rio Grande, Yellow, Colorado and Tigris rivers are now drying out each summer. At some times of the year they fail to reach the sea.
All caused by irrgation withdrawals.
The Bangladesh coastline has had to be withdrawn as more land is lost to the sea as a result of heavier monsoons and rising sea levels.
Bangladesh is gigantic river delta. River delatas naturally change shape over time.
Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa has lost more than 80 per cent of its ice cap in the last 100 years.
Has absolutely nothing to do with global warming according to Scientific American.
The Pacific islands of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuata are all under serious threat from rising sea levels......
How do you map "under serious threat" changes to coastlines that aren't changing?
I wonder how those edible frozen animals became virtually flash-frozen, preserved intact and undamaged. A catastrophic event must have accomplished that.
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