Global Warming Marches On...

The poor of other countries are now paying for the consumption of the West. In particular the subsistence and traditional farmers of low-lying coastal areas are suffering as their farmland is submerged; the islanders of India have been the latest to feel it.

Top climate experts on the UN panel predicted that temperatures would increase by between 1.8 and 4 Celsius (3.2 and 7.8 Fahrenheit), and sea levels would rise by between 7 and 23 inches to submerge islands in the 21st century.

The impact could be even greater if ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland thaw.

But in India they're already suffering...

Two nearby islands disappeared beneath the sea after residents were forced to leave, and the sea has swallowed about 100 sq. km of mangrove forest in three decades in the Sunderbans.

Now would be the time to notice!

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