Editor: With last week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report stating the Earth is entering an accelerating warming trend that will result in expansion of worldwide extreme climate fluctuations and flooded lowlands, it would seem to be a nomind decision by our local governments to prevent all development, such as the Southlands proposal, on any lands that are vulnerable to rising sea levels.
In the September issue of National Geographic magazine, a forecast rise in sea level by the year 2100 is an intermediate 4.0 feet and a possible high of 6.6 feet. Now the year 2100 is a long time away, but something the next generation will experience.
Should a 6.6 feet sea level rise happen, then most likely the ice melt will continue and should all of the world's ice melt, National Geographic shows what would happen to the world's populated lowlands for an estimated 216 feet rise in sea level! The human race, with all of its collective intelligence, is a slow learner, but are we really that dull to ignore the accumulating evidence of a worldwide climate change disaster?
Allan Warner
