Global Warming and Rising Seas - Our Coast Lines Are in Danger

As if the year 2008 being predicted as the warmest year of the century wasn't bad enough, now we can look forward to major flooding in places you'd never thought of. And it isn't from rain storms or hurricanes.

It is from rising sea levels. Now you are saying, "rising sea levels? How can that be when they say that we are in danger of water shortages from dry seasons?"

Well, sea water is not where we get our drinking water. One thing has nothing to do with the other. What they say is happening is this..

" Global warming - through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding - is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation."

Okay, are we shocked? Well I am, as they also predict...

"Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is, may be slowly erased." reports the San Fransico Examiner.com.

Good grief! Who'd a thunk it? Can we do anything about it? How can we stop ir or at least help drag it out as long as possible?

"We're going to get a meter and there's nothing we can do about it," said University of Victoria climatologist Andrew Weaver, a lead author of the February report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris. "It's going to happen no matter what - the question is when."

Oh, good grief! We can't stop it! Why are the glaciers melting faster and waters getting warmer? Two words...Global Warming. Global warming doesn't just effect land areas...if also effects the rest of the planet which is mostly water. Again, something we never thing about. We think about as it relates directly to us or as it sits in our own backyards and that is as far as we think. Well, we need to think farther. We can't stop this from happening...can we delay it?