lightblueline

as of january this year 2009 in a recent meeting of the ipcc in holland it was determined that the old models of the ice melt rates no longer accurately applied toward prediction of sea level rise

because glacier movement and melting has increased the ipcc has stated that new and current models predict a one meter sealevel increase by the end of the century

meaning:

bangladesh alone will see about 15 million in displaced refugee population
china will see a devastated infrastructure

as china goes so go we/the rest of the world
opinion:

Source: University of Copenhagen March 10, 2009

"Research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows that the upper range of sea level rise by 2100 could be in the range of about one meter, or possibly more. In the lower end of the spectrum it looks increasingly unlikely that sea level rise will be much less than 50 cm by 2100. This means that if emissions of greenhouse gases is not reduced quickly and substantially, even the best case scenario will hit low lying coastal areas housing one in ten humans on the planet hard.

two times recently i anchored in the bahia de san lucas every other day huge cruise ships unload people to play jetskies para glide tow fish for soon tobe extinct fish catch and release maybe from huge pleasure yachts go snorkle and scuba go shopping and eating in a frenzy of activity unbelievable in intensity and scale of consumption and i wonder as the disney ship pulls in e passengers ever get a chance to hear about carbon in the atmosphere globalwarming or sealevel rise and the effect of such activity and the science of how this is connected and how consumption its culture is now a probl

science is a measuring device

art is a survival mechanism

the jewel of science
is that it exquisetly and ever more accurately through technology measures change

art identifies salient features of the systemic contextual landscape upon which a society is based and in which a society perceives itself

both identify anomolies in systems and patterns relative to societal interface with its environment
science in observation of the measurable physical world arrives at consensus through peer analysis and acceptance of theory

the nile delta
a bread basket flooding renewed each year
extended for millenia a lotus blossom
blooms into the mediterranean
stopped at the aswan dam
hydro electric dependency
now an east nile delta region high school student
inspired by the movie an inconvenient truth makes climate change presentations to his fellow students
now a west nile region man campaigns to equip all homes of his region with solar water heaters
as the delta erodes with sea level rise
removes inundates submerges
disappears
the nile delta

on this
amazon delta w/ 7meter sea level rise

miles sq inundation = forest destruction =
planet oxygen=planet methane

planet population depends

extinction