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386: WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE! THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING – It Has Begun. Lands Retreat as Seas Advance

27 September, 2008

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE! THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING – It Has Begun. Lands Retreat as Seas Advance

WEST AFRICA: Coastline to be submerged by 2099

Gleaned from: IRIN/Plus-News

ACCRA 25^th August 2008: Huge swathes of West Africa's coastline, extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon, will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.

Even where urban areas appear unscathed, sea level rise will still challenge towns and cities by threatening the underground water supplies from which millions of people across the region draw their water. The effects of sea-level rise will be most dramatic in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, which is just five metres above sea level, with some parts of the city lying below sea-level.

The flooding is likely be most severe in Lagos because of its position at the southern end of the Gulf of Guinea where stronger tropical storms from the South Atlantic create storm surges up to three metres high. He estimates that most of the 15 million inhabitants of Lagos will be displaced and Nigeria's southern Delta region where oil installations are located will also be swamped.

Other major urban centres in West Africa which experts have identified as at risk of flooding are Banjul in The Gambia, Bissau in Guinea Bissau, and Nouakchott in Mauritania. All three capitals are at or close to sea level.
Compounding the situation; in August 2007, a tropical storm 5,000 kilometres off the coast caused a shift in the strong currents that run along the Nigerian coast and destroyed a protective sand bar.
Environmentalists blame Global Warming for the gradual melting of the 3,000 metre-thick Greenland ice cap in the Arctic as being responsible for……experts made their comments at a UNFCCC – the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – meeting held in the capital of Ghana, Accra, where representatives of 150 countries gathered to continue preparatory negotiations for a landmark climate change conference due to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009 where a successor to the Kyoto Treaty is to be signed – Daniel: Human-Apes! Talk, Balk, and Walk!

BENIN: Coastal erosion threatening to wipe out parts of Cotonou

COTONOU 2^nd September 2008: Rising sea levels have destroyed hundreds of homes, hotels, roads and harvests, and threaten to engulf large areas of Cotonou, the capital of Benin. A government-commissioned study about a year ago recommended urgent action to hold back the rising tides, and save the city's ports, airport, and coastal communities, but political infighting blocked funding.

Daniel: Dear readers and fellow-Apes; surely you do not believe for one moment that sea levels will rise in only one part of the world!?

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