First off what about the United States rights of survival? I know, I know we are responsible for this crisis so we have no rights the world court of public opinion has met and found us guilty of crimes against humanity and the only thing for us to do is plead guilty and pay the price for our guilt. The fact that our industrial and technological might was what pulled the entire world into a century of unparalleled growth and prosperity is now considered our most egregious crime, it released on the world the poisonous CO2.
The fact that we for a century have spent blood and treasures beyond any nation in world history, for the sole purpose of protecting the world from the most evil of dictators and forms of governments means nothing compared to the unleashing of the scourge of carbon dioxide on the rest of the world. We indeed are a most selfish people, deserving whatever the UN determines is to be our fate.
Look what we have done to poor Bangladesh:
Bangladesh, regarded as one of the countries extremely exposed to climatic threats, has made its leadership visible in the global climate change negotiating process highlighting its 'right to survival as a human being', in recently concluded climate change talks in Bonn, reports BSS.
The world leaders empathetically heard the concerns of Bangladesh with regards to climate change in the meeting incorporating a number of proposals in the agenda for future negotiation process...
Well I am sure glad a country of such stature as Bangladesh is taking the lead in this. If the United States due to it's crimes against humanity must step aside it is reassuring to know that a country with the historic traditions of Bangladesh is stepping up to the plate. However I read the entire article and there is not one word about the threat that Bangladesh is under. Perhaps that is because we all know the fate that someday will befall Bangladesh. It will be swamped over by the rising seas as the result of the United State's CO2 created global warming climate change crisis.
We have recently learned that the Oceans are rising at an ever decelerating rate of 3.2 mm a year, which would of course be of grave concern to Bangladesh which is only growing annually by about 20 square kilometres (7.72 square miles)". Will this growing trend of miles continue to outpace this massive millimeter rise in sea levels? Well according to this it will:
Bangladesh is increasing in size contradicting forecasts that the parts of the country will disappear under water due to global warming.
Scientists at the Centre for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) say that the country's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (12.5 square miles) annually. They said that they have studied 32 years of satellite images and found that the country's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres annually during that time.
Data shows that the sediment travelling down the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers from the Himalayan watershed are creating new land as they wash into the Bay of Bengal, they said.Mominul Haque Sarker, Head of the department at the CEGIS that looks at boundary changes, said a billion tonnes of sediment that the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and 200 other rivers bring from the Himalayas each year before crossing Bangladesh had caused the landmass to increase.
About a third of this sediment, he said, makes it into the Bay of
Bengal, where new territory is forming, he said.
Sarkar said that in the next 50 years this could add up to the country gaining 1,000 square kilometres.
It does not seem possible to me that millimeters could flood miles, but what do I know I am an American, obviously too steeped in my gluttonous unsustainable consumerist ways to discern the difference between millimeters and miles. Of course being a bullying slothful ignoramus American I never did learn the metric system so I probably am ignorant of the finer points here.
I am sure the UN of IPCC obviously knows best, they of Darfur fame, oh sorry that is our ex president, whose name shall not be mentioned, fault. Our new president will lower the rising seas, he told us so, so it must be true, because the world loves him. Perhaps he has a way to stop millimeters of rising seas from overcoming miles of growing land, he certainly has shown that he can grow money on trees so perhaps so.
I am sure the UN must be right here, a very important person from the UN of IPCC said that this growth of miles is really meaningless in the overall scope of things, he said:
"The rate at which sediment is deposited and new land is created is much slower than the rate at which climate change and sea level rises are taking place."
I'm sure this very important man Atiq Rahman who is a LEAD AUTHOR OF THE UN OF IPCC on such matters would know this. And how fortuitous we are that Mr Atiq Rahman LEAD AUTHOR OF THE UN OF IPCC just happens to be an environmentalist from.....Bangladesh. Who else would you trust to be objective about such things as rising seas than an environmentalist from Bangladesh? Sounds reasonable to me.
Back to the report from Bonn, what is it we carbon emittng no account American pigs are to do to save Bangladesh?
...Making a call for ensuring early access of the LDCs to the Adaptation Fund, Bangladesh proposed for making a vulnerability index to allocate the future support from the adaptation fund and a legally binding instrument for adaptation.
Population size, geographical location, social economic condition, UN Human Development Index and vulnerability of the country to climate change and other natural hazards should be the criterions for making such vulnerability index, head of Bangladesh delegation and Director General of the Department of Environment (DoE) M Nojibur Rahman said.
Bangladesh also raised the issue of non-availability of the fund promised by the rich nations in 2001 in the seventh conference of the parties in Morocco to give support of US$ 2 billion to LDCs for taking immediate and urgent action on adaptation to climate change.
But I am beginning to understand how this millimeter to miles thing works, we are quite adept at it here in the US. Declare a crisis, tax everybody to solve it, throw the money in the hole or to your supporters and declare victory. I am sure our new President knows how to do that- it is the American way!
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