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• The Bangladesh coastline has had to be withdrawn as more land is lost to the sea as a result of heavier monsoons and rising sea levels.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 ...
“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.”
They are covering all bases. Rising sea levels = AGW. Falling sea levels = AGW. If sea levels remained the same, they would probably claim AGW is the culprit.
We must all unite together and stop global plate tectonics!
A good list of rebuttals, but the article states that things have changed so drastically in the last 4 YEARS that maps had to be redrawn.
Yet not one instance is listed where the change has occurred over the last 4 years. It appears the minimum time period listed is around 50 years.
they just lie about everything and then some.
tectonic-deniers must be demonized
The Dead Sea is 25m lower..
Well call me a plumber, and put in a pipe, for crying out loud.
26 miles of pipe, a 1200 m drop - For heaven’s sake, the problem is self correcting.
Idiots.
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