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| Polar Pioneer Leaving Seattle for Alaska June 15, 2015 |
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| Save The Arctic |
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| Map of the Area's they will Drill |
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| Map of the Chukchi Sea |
Now for the first Global warming inhabited that is claimed~
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| Last look before the island went under the sea |
For the first time, in history, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath the rising seas due to Global warming. As promised, I was going to continue my 2-part on the rising seas due to Global warming. Well, its seems it has happened the small island of Lohachara, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges & the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the bay of Bengal will mark the first apocalyptic predictions of environmentalism and climate control scientists have started and Globe warming is TRUE!
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| This is just The U.S. not counting the entire world |
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| Last days till the island was taken by the seas |
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Now I am going to go through the most threatened area's around the world do to Globe Warming & Rising Seas. Climate Change~
1-Palau- Is one of the main Pacific island nations that is
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| Palau-New Guinea |
2-Kiribati- Is the second island that is feeling the effects of
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| The nation of Kiribati |
3-Bangladesh-Then there is the country of Bangladesh
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| Country of Bangladesh |
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| So High will the seas go in the southern part of Miami? |
U.S states in the list but you may never have thought about all those beautiful beaches our really below the sea line. So that makes Miami very much in danger of of the rising seas. Even the organisation for economic and development has said that Miami is one of the most vulnerable cities to sea level rise in the world. They go onto saying quote,' sea levels have risen nine to 12 inches in Miami in the past century & they are expected to rise up to six+ more inches by 2030. Then 12 to 21 inches by 2060. And by three to Five feet by 2100. Scary! Well you think that scary According to the
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| South of Florida in the near future Miami yes under the seas do to climate change |
5-Tuvalu a tiny island of nine south pacific islands is also
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| Rising seas in the island of Tuvalu |
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| Folks Tuvalu |
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| Flooding of the salt sea water |
1-extreme weather has become far more frequent and more intense in the island of Tuvalu, with the ocean surges from cyclones causing flash flooding that has wiped away or even severely damage many homes; leaving people without shelter for very long periods of time.
2-The Traditional diet of the people of Tuvalu is based on all fish, coconuts & the starchy vegetables that the would grow like breadfruit, pulaka & taro. Sadly the fisheries part of their diet have been depleted in recent years by the increase water temperatures; erosion which has caused the loss of tracts of them being able to live along the shoreline, being just to dangerous & the devastating of their crops that is their livelihood.
3- Another problem for the people of the Tuvalu Islands is the soil inland has even suffered too from the erosion and salt water too. So with the failing crops for food, that is attributed to the increasing flooding and higher salinity within the soil - It seems that the island of Tuvalu has caught the eyes of the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization which has financed an effort to introduce salt-resistant Banana Plants to the islands plus another involving salt-resistant Taro Root that is in the works.
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| Large Ocean swells the come onto the island everyday |
4-Most of the folks that live on the island of Tuvalu rely completely on any rainfall that comes to the island. It is for their drinking and bathing too. They did have containment tanks during the drought seasons, however, the rain this year 2015 and last has been so sparse that the people of the island of Tuvalu are on the verge of running out all together. It seems that this month new Zealand and Australia has shipped emergency desalination plants to the island of Tuvalu to treat seawater, but strict rationing and a state of emergency is continued for the entire island.
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| The small island of Tuvalu |
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| Children playing in the flooding neighborhoods of Tuvalu island
Maldives Islands~
 the Maldives Islands they basically look like paradise on earth, with their turquoise atolls, sparkling water, fish in all the colors of the rainbow & the best luxury hotels in the world right in the turquoise sparkling seas & pure white sands. Maldives is a democracy with a dynamic young population & it's high-end tourism is currently overtaking famous destinations such as the Mauritius & the Seychelles as a top destination overall in the world. Now it seems to be  be if you have the cash! In 2011 the Chinese tourists that were caught touring there & a number of British visitors to; It seems the future of the Maldives seems to be looking bright so it seems? However, if you go scuba diving you'll discover a slightly less romantic picture of the beauty islands. The reality is a seascape of floating bottles and cans, baby diapers etc. that are washing out from the beach landfills. Humans just don't know how good they have it till it's to late after they  good they have it. Untill its to late after they destroy the beauty of the earth no matter where they happen to be. This, of course doesn't in clued the folks that live where they really don't have much of a choice. Also, the coral at one time was quite beautiful but not so good condition now, says an oceanographer, Fabien Cousteau who check it out just recently. Another big part of the problem is over-fishing as it has deprived the coral reef of its cleansing the fish. The coral reef is also recovering from the huge El Nino's last visit in 1998 from a terrible tsunami in 2004 that hit the Maldives islands with an enormous hit as well as from a general warming of waters in the past few years. 
Maldives
has also been severely destinated by the bleaching of the coral reef due to the Higher temperatures in the oceans. this year which has been the blamed for many areas of beaching for beautiful coral reef. Some experts fear this could be the worse bleaching of our time. There was an similar event in 1998 which saw an estimated 16% of the world's coral reefs being destroyed. I did find out that it takes about coral to recover from bleaching between 10 and 70 years. Also with the threat of climate change with the change of the warming waters on the rise we could lose our coral reefs too.  the Maldives islands & what is really going on there! As of right now! they are already eroding due to rising sea levels... The country is considering to add a green tax for all tourists at the Indian Ocean Nation's popular island resorts to help pay for a new homeland for their people. [$3Tax]. These rising sea levels are forecasting to submerge most of the Maldives islands by the year 2100. The Maldives economy grosses up to $850million yearly and gets more than a quarter of it gross domestic product from the tourist. They haven't taxed yet! However, they may very soon to help the fight in climate change. So these famous Maldives for their high-end luxury resorts & white-sand atolls are an popular place to be. Yet their highest point on the islands is only 2.5 meters above sea level. Not a good thing for such a beautiful place.  the island of Maldives have truly made a name for themselves as an advocate for battling climate change too. It seems that they are waiting on parliament to approval for the 3$ tax per each Tourist day. This is what the President Nasheed is thinking based on an annual average of over 700,000 tourist who spend on average of three days on the islands that would translate to about $6.3million annually for his people. So in March of I believe this year the President Nasheed also a former human rights activist outlined his plans to make the Maldives the world's first carbon-neutral nation within a decade by launching a 1.1billion initiative to convert the islands solely to renewable energy from fossil fuels & buy and destroy EU carbon credits to offset emissions from the tourists flying to visit its resorts.  the President of the Maldives efforts and his words were also featured in the award-winning documentary U.N. Climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. 'The island President of the Maldives.' Now the former President [Mohamed Nasheed] he still been a tireless campaigner for the urgent need for the countries to take action against climate change & the rising seas because with a three to six-foot sea level rise predicted by 2100 the Maldives could Vanish all together.     
Maldives Erosion from the rising seas
Torres Strait Islands-
These islands are a group just
between Australia & New Guinea.
These are going to be the last
group of islands that I am going to
discuss in this post. I could
go on forever on the thousands
to millions
of different islands all over
the world that will sink and vanish
into our oceans & all the people that have been living on these islands
for centuries, generations to a point that many don't want to leave even
though they have been told their home is sinking. The Torres Islands
are quite small and often are overlooked. They sit between Australia
and New Guinea. It seems that these low lying island with
their sparkling are facing the same challenges that all the other
islands in the South Pacific is such as Kiribati, Tuvalu & Maldives.
Few if any of the people of
Australia have ever heard of the Islands
Torres Strait or even known that
their home is in such peril of
sinking. It is quite sad to think that their neighborhood country island
is that invisible to the people of Australia, sadly their time will
come too. As for Australia's neighbor island the Torres they have taken
steps to try to protect the home as best ways they can; even though in
the end many know their home will be swallowed up by the rising seas.
In the year 2011 the islands regional council requested $5 million from
the country of Australian Government to rebuild the sea walls to protect
the island communities from flooding. I don't know if they were able
to get the money from the
Australian Government to help
their people
of Torres islands. It does
seems that the Australian
Government has
helped the people of
Torres island however
they have made some points
to the very high risk that their neighbor island is in their own backyard.
The question is will these folks get the help they need before it's too
late? So they can keep their heritage on the island that they have for
so many centuries?
The Unstoppable Melting of the West Side of Antarctic Sheet Ice-
Well, this isn't good news as
the whole post hasn't been good,
what I am trying to say in this
post is just information and awareness
that globe warming is
TRUE! For the last 10+ years,
folks haven't believe
me or others who have tried to tell people that it is truly happening
like Greenpeace. Sadly it takes to this point for some people to
get their heads out of the sand to finally believe that we are all
telling the truth
and have been for many years.
There has been lots of research
done in the Antarctic Sheet Ice
and its not a pretty sight my
friends.
Basically what we
have is a huge Sheet
of Antarctic Sheet Ice that
is unstoppable to melting to the
ocean causing in a short amount
of time rising seas between at least 4feet+ & 10feet+ within the next
two centuries 2020 & 2030.
There have been many reasons to why, but the reason I have
written this long post is that I truly care about people and want every
body to be as ready as they can where ever they might live in this
big world that might
turn into a big bath tub.
Climate
change has
triggered the west
side of the Antarctic
Sheet of Ice to start a
unstoppable and
in turn the accelerating
of global sea
level rising too.
It is said that the seas could
rise up to 10 feet in 2030. The question is
what will the U.S and the World
look like with an ocean that is
10feet+ or
 to say is how much landmass will we
lose to the 28,8000 square
miles of land guessing with 12.3
million people on that
land Scary Eh! The Next Part of this post is how it's going to affect every coastal state-  population & more than half of the areas of the 40 larger cities that are populated over 50,000+ people which is less than 10 feet above sea level even with high tide.These places can range from Virginia Beach, South Miami to Hoboken N.J. which will be the largest affected by the rising seas. They say that 27 of the cities that are in the state of Florida where one-third have housing currently in this area sits below the critical line below sea level which includes 87% 
counties. These counties are
more threatened than any
whole state outside of the
state of Florida. Why?
because it sits on a bedrock
filled with holes rendering
them all defenseless to
the seawalls
or levees almost
impossible to save
these places! Why?
you might ask. Well, in the image map of the U.S above where
the dark red area's in both
maps
the states will be
underwater
from 6-12 feet depending
on how much the west
Antarctica Sheet ice melts
and if the warm water
continue to melt over other
areas of the Antartica - we
could be looking at a world living on boats. It doesn't stop just
in the southern states of Florida . These rising seas by the metric
of most people living on land less than 10-feet above sea level
and high tides are in trouble too.
the area's around
Boston, New Jersey,
New York and other cities are
very much threatened due to
surging seas. They even made
a few movies on the rising seas
in New York called '2012'. They
weren't far off from the truth.
However, if you want to know
the most threatened areas in the long terms with the low-lying
population in the U.S. with over 700,000+ people in about 16
different cities-Some of these great cities include; New Orleans,
La, Norfolk Va, Stockton Calif, Boston Mass,
St Petersburg Fla & Jacksonville Fla.
Much of this list of the 16 states is with more than
100,000 people that live below the sea-level line and much
of New Orleans is just that!
However, they have taken steps to try to protect the fair city
It seems with our coast
around the entire world
and all the island at a
major threat, also with
the West Antarctic Sheet
Ice melting faster everyday
we might have to
reimagination a life without our coastlines and islands one day
very soon.
New York City-  any of the movies they did in New York showing climate change?Well, do you remember the movie? I believe it to be very closet to what might happen to New Yor in the Next 10-years. I believe that we aren't due for a next Ice age, 
little of it. And the only way to get to what building that are left will be
by boats.
report from
New Jersey which is
based on a nonprofit
climate for thousands
of New York City
residents who
may be at risk for
severe flooding
as a result of climate
change.
It was said, by Climate Central'
The NY meto area hosts the
nations highest-density
populations vulnerable to
They argue', the
funnel shape of
New York city
Harbor has the
potential to
magnify storm
surges which
already supplemented
by seal
level rise could threaten a widespread areas of the
and the
millions that
live there.
    
Last photo of what might happen one day
as waters continue to rise the highest mountains
the hymialmis as a young monk watchs the un-think able
California-Finally, we are at California my home state where I was
most of my life. I love
to go to the
beach as a teen and
as a young
adult too. However,
my home state
is very
much in peril
of all the coastline
being
swallowed up by the
high seal levels
because they are finding it impossible to stop the coastal erosion
from the rising sea levels. So its happening everywhere around the
world! They are even saying that along the California coastline it
to 6 inches higher in
the next few years and
by the year 2030 it
will be 3 to 6-12 feet
higher it really depends
on the melting of the
sheet ice in the
Ancatica.
          
This is what is happening to our beaches
and to our coastline around the world
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| This is OUR WORLD after the flood waters have taken our land, people & wildlife islands full of billions of people and so much more. We have to Believe that Climate change is REAL! [the light green is what's left of out land] |
Well I know I have overloaded you all with lots of information
more than you probably ever thought of but this is
very important to me because it involves everyone on this planet.
Also, all the wildlife to. This is the Tigers, elephants, polar bears
and so many more. All the folks on the islands all over the
World and the different countries too. I hope that you understand
how important you all to me! all over the world I wish that
there was a small solution to this huge problem, but there really isn't
we have to do something now to protect our people that
are living in area's that are below the sea levels first
and then go from there. It is going to happen it's just a matter of time.
So I pray that we will be ready all over the beautiful
Blue planet. I love you all my dearest friends & Followers
so much thank you for visiting my blog the days when your can
I try to make interesting stories for you all.
However once in a while I write about important items
that I feel that involves all of us.
You are always Welcome here when you need a break
from your daily lives to enjoy the music and fun
stories too. I hope that you all are having a lovely summer
love and peace to you all
YOURWENDY
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