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Karamba
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05 Jul 2007 : 18:00:08
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Parts of UK have recently been visited by floods after heavy rains last week, leaving many families temporally homeless. What has been a matter of TV news about remote locations like Bangladesh and parts of America is now reality in Britain. Over 35 Thousand families are affected. A senior member of Hull City Council calling on the government for intervention said this is not Flood Tourism but real desaster requiring urgent help. Families abandoned their homes to take shelter in temporal accomodations. There are reports of looting, mainly household items. Some insurance companies advised their claimants to destroy personal household items left in the open so that looters make no use them.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 05 Jul 2007 : 18:47:26
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Karamba, last month I went to see the icecap here in Greenland and it was very fascinating. The effects of global warming and the greenhouse theory is easily seen in Greenland because the icecap is melting very fast. It is said that the sea surface of the world will raise with 6 to 7 meters if the icecap of Greenland should melt and you imagine what effect that will have on regions like the Gambia and other parts of the world.
One of the glaciers on the west coast is moving at a speed of about 20 to 30 meters into the sea every day.
We should expect more of these floods around the world in future.
I will share some photos of the melting glacial ice with Bantaba members and visitors when I have more time.
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Jul 2007 : 21:13:23
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Hi Mommodou,
Last Friday I was talking to some work colleagues about the ice cap melting and its contribution to Global Warming. It's so frustrating with so much knowledge at the world's finger tips so called developed nations still cannot think joined up. With every action their is a reaction there is only so much damage human beings especially the BB (Bush, Blair or Brown) gang can do before Mother Nature releases her missles and brings the world to its knees.
Peace
Sister Omega
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Karamba
United Kingdom
3820 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jul 2007 : 23:30:11
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Hello Momodou,
Please dig in for more details on this issue of Global Warming that some people take for granted as another news story. If there is anything on Thermal Death, that will help too. It appears that nature is slowly eating up Mother Earth where our little hands are doing the harmful activities to speed it up. |
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gambiabev
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Jul 2007 : 07:47:33
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Americans still don't acknowledge the reality of this. In Europe at least we are BEGINNING to understand.
As countries develop it is natural for their people to want to have the possessions they see in the West (cars, tvs fridges). The whole idea of whatis DEVELOPMENT needs to be carefully thought through.
For example China is developing at a rapid rate and has a very large population. If they follow the western deveopment route then will they all want all these possessions. If this is the case then what difference will it make me taking my wine bottles for recycling? I real drop in the ocean.
This is the BIG issue for our generation in the west especially. How do we save the planet for hte future generations? |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 06 Jul 2007 : 14:09:20
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Clicking on the photo will take you to a page with a few photos showing the icecap and some icebergs from a glacia north of the Arctic Circle.
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serenata
Germany
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Posted - 06 Jul 2007 : 14:28:12
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The photos are really beautiful, but what they mean is anything but beautiful.
In Germany the Global Warming is the No 1 topic. This week the government met with the power suppliers to work out measures for a drastical reducion of CO2. Unfortunately, CDU (Merkel) is still the poodle of the big companies, and therefore our chancellor clings to the idea of exorcising the devil with beelzebub: She promotes nuclear power. 
Maybe in twenty years the expensive compounds in Kololi etc., if still existing, will be very cheap.... |
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 06 Jul 2007 : 15:46:36
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Many world figures have their attention towards Greenland nowadays because this is one of the areas on the Earth mostly touched by the climatic changes. There is a threat of rising sea levels because of the melting ice. The ice fjord in Ilulissat alone sends about 35 cubic-kilometres of inland ice out in the sea every year.
The EU-commission's chairman, José Manuel Barroso was here last month and said that he will continue the fight for a more ambitious climate policy when he gets back to Brussels.
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Maybe in twenty years the expensive compounds in Kololi etc., if still existing, will be very cheap....
Many towns and villages in the Gambia will definitely disappear even if the sea level rises by 1 - 2m. Perhaps land prices will rise on the hilltops of CRD at that time |
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