Global Warming and Rising Seas - Our Coast Lines Are in Danger

As if the year 2008 being predicted as the warmest year of the century wasn't bad enough, now we can look forward to major flooding in places you'd never thought of. And it isn't from rain storms or hurricanes.

It is from rising sea levels. Now you are saying, "rising sea levels? How can that be when they say that we are in danger of water shortages from dry seasons?"

Well, sea water is not where we get our drinking water. One thing has nothing to do with the other. What they say is happening is this..

" Global warming - through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding - is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation."

Okay, are we shocked? Well I am, as they also predict...

"Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is, may be slowly erased." reports the San Fransico Examiner.com.

Good grief! Who'd a thunk it? Can we do anything about it? How can we stop ir or at least help drag it out as long as possible?

"We're going to get a meter and there's nothing we can do about it," said University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver, a lead author of the February report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris. "It's going to happen no matter what - the question is when."

Oh, good grief! We can't stop it! Why are the glaciers melting faster and waters getting warmer? Two words...Global Warming. Global warming doesn't just effect land areas...if also effects the rest of the planet which is mostly water. Again, something we never thing about. We think about as it relates directly to us or as it sits in our own backyards and that is as far as we think. Well, we need to think farther. We can't stop this from happening...can we delay it?

Beginning with a recent meeting at the United Nations, world leaders convened to talk about fighting global warming. Later, leaders gather in Washington with President Bush for more talks. Well, at least some attention is starting. How much it will help remains to be seen but at least the thought and help attempts are in progress.

What Areas Will be "Hit" the Hardest?

"The EPA, which studied only the Eastern and Gulf coasts, found that Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and South Carolina would lose the most land.
S. Jeffress Williams, a U.S. Geological Survey coastal geologist in Woods Hole, Mass., says it's "not unreasonable at all" to expect that much in 100 years. "We've had a third of a meter in the last century."

"It's not just "on the way"...it is here ... now. We just don't know it. The change will be a gradual process, one that is so slow it will be easy to ignore for a while. But we have to start now to do whatever we can. We can't stop the ocean's waters. We can't stop the melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters." But maybe we can help global warming from warming to fast. You say, "Oh, 100 years - we have time". Well, no we don't. As they say, it is not just "on the way"...it is HERE!!! Don't you want to keep this country at its best for generations to come?

There are so many things everyone can do to help slow down global warming. We now don't just have the heat from global warming to deal with, but we now have the rising ocean waters. We are destroying our earth. Granted, some of it can't be stopped - some of it can't be actually stopped, but at least some of it can be stalled, slowed down and not contributed to as much.

Do what you can to stop global warming. If everyone does just a few little things, multiply that by the millions of people in the country, and there's a good chance that we could at least slow it all down a little.