ApocaDocs: Most of UAE to be underwater with sea level rise

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Posted Thu Jan 21 2010: from Desdemona Despair:


	Most of UAE to be underwater with sea level rise http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1264107611 Focusing on UAE only, three of the most threatening outcomes of climate change have been studied in the report -- rise in sea level, water resources and dry land ecosystems. The results say that 85 per cent of UAE's population living on the coast and more than 90 per cent of the infrastructure also lying along the seashores, the country's economy and general well-being is at risk even from a one-metre rise in sea level. Two plausible sea level rise scenarios for the years 2050 and 2100 were studied in the report. In the first case (year 2050), the sea levels may rise between one and three metres, depending on the speed of polar ice melting, while in the second, the predictions are between two and nine metres.

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'Doc Jim says:

I dunno... tragic, or poetic?