http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/05/06/is-this-what-the-future-looks-like/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/05/06/is-this-what-the-future-looks-like/#comment-63986 Mon, 19 May 2008 22:41:27 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4701#comment-63986 [...] in our toolbox, even the clumsy, ugly ones. It’s a big hole to climb out of, and we cannot fail. Look at the devastation in Burma to see what a world where we fail to solve the primary challenge looks [...]

]]> http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/05/06/is-this-what-the-future-looks-like/#comment-63542 Wed, 07 May 2008 15:54:51 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4701#comment-63542 Note that most of the inundated lands were rice fields. Rice is grown well on flat, low-lying deltaic coasts such as is found in my home near Houston. These, most productive lands are going to be lost to sea level rise fairly quickly under almost all AGW scenarios. Many tens of thousands of acres of rice fields were lost near Beaumont Texas when water and oil withdrawal caused the land to sink. These fields lay between 5 and 9 feet in elevation and so haven’t been inundated by sea water, but they lost enough elevation that they could no longer be drained for planting and harvest.

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