The real reason BushCo doesn’t believe in Global Warming.
[Could this be BushCo’s secret rationale for ignoring all the evidence for global warming… economic warfare against the newly emerging global superpowers… India and China?
Sure, it’s an absurd suggestion… great standup line for a comic on Saturday Night Live; but, after you think a bit, it is just sobering. First of all, given the relentlessly irrational logic of the NeoCons, This guy isn’t predicting disaster in some dim future… he’s talking about a date just sixteen years from now. Before I’ll be 50. -Thomas]
Rising sea ‘to drown 3 cities’
From correspondents in Madras
December 7, 2003
GLOBAL warming could submerge three of India’s biggest cities beneath the sea by 2020 unless the crisis was brought under control, an Indian scientist warned today.
“If the warming continues, there will be about half to one metre increase in sea level by 2020 and cities like Bombay, Calcutta and Madras will be completely submerged,” said Rajiv Nigam, a scientist with the Geological Oceanography Division in the western Indian state of Goa.
He said a one-metre rise in sea level could cause five trillion rupees ($147.24 billion) worth of damage to property in Goa alone.
“If this is the quantum of damage in a small state like Goa that has only two districts, imagine the extent of property loss in metros like Bombay,” he added at a workshop in the National College in Dirudhy, Tamil Nadu state.
He also predicted that global warming could cause frequent cyclones along coastal areas and affect the annual monsoon rain, which is crucial for India’s farm-dependent economy.
