Thursday, May 17, 2012

Q. and A.: How to Save Bangladesh? - NYTimes.com

Vast areas are underwater half the time, so farmers can’t go into their fields or grow anything then; they have to rely on something else for most of the year.

These things have always happened in Bangladesh, but with climate change it is expected that these flash floods will occur more frequently, and rainfall will be more intense and erratic.

Flashback: Bangladesh gaining land, not losing: scientists

DHAKA (AFP) — New data shows that Bangladesh's landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say.

Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually.

Climate Change Dispatch - Giving The Global Warming Bully A Free Pass

The disconcerting reality, however, is that the most vocal critics of the billboard campaign do not apply their offense and outrage equally against all parties. The alarmist global warming movement is heavily populated with hateful extremists who routinely insult and defame skeptics in the most repugnant of manner. The media and most global warming activists unfailingly give these extremists a free pass for their hateful and incendiary rhetoric, yet they have stoked a witch hunt mentality against the Heartland Institute now that the Institute finally succumbed to the bully’s own tactics and punched back.

A Million People tell EPA to Adopt Proposed Carbon Pollution Rule | ThinkProgress

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