MỰC NƯỚC BIỂN DÂNG CAO

Vỉa băng đá ở Greenland có thể tan chảy sớm hơn so với dự tính - 18 tháng 12 , 2008

Nghiên cứu gia người Đức, Tiến sĩ Bill Hare, cũng là một trong các tác giả hàng đầu của Ban Báo Cáo về Khí hậu Thay đổi Đa Quốc gia của Liên Hiệp Quốc, cho biết các phát minh khoa học hiện đang giúp dự đoán chính xác hơn về ảnh hưởng của nhiệt độ ở các vỉa băng trên thế giới. Tiến sĩ Hare cho biết nhiệt độ tăng lên một chút ở mức 1,5 độ có thể có nghĩa là sự tan chảy không thể đảo ngược ở Greenland dẫn tới mực nước biển dâng cao nhiều thước. Theo Tiến sĩ thì điều này tiên đoán sự biến mất của hàng ngàn đảo và đa số thành phố ven biển thế giới. Xin đa tạ Tiến sĩ Hare và đồng nghiệp đã báo động về ảnh hưởng khốc liệt khi toàn cầu tiếp tục ấm lên. Mong tất cả chúng ta cùng lưu ý và hành động nhằm bảo vệ tương lai của Địa Cầu yêu quý.

Vào ngày 24 tháng 8, 2008, trong hội nghị truyền hình với Trung tâm Vancouver, Gia Nã Đại, Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư đã nói về tình trạng khẩn cấp của sự tan băng như sau: Hội nghị truyền hình với Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư tại Trung tâm Vancouver, Gia Nã Đại – 24 tháng 8, 2008

Đa phần khi băng đá biến mất nghĩa là dấu hiệu của tình trạng bất an đối với tinh cầu. Dĩ nhiên sẽ tốt hơn nếu chúng ta cứu được tinh cầu trước khi băng tan. Nhưng như tình hình đang có chúng ta chỉ có thể làm hết sức mình và cố gắng thông báo cho mọi người biết để cứu chính họ bằng cách ăn chay. Nếu băng đá tan mau hơn thì dĩ nhiên chúng ta có ít thời gian hơn để cứu tinh cầu. Nhưng dù vậy, nhờ mọi người tham gia ăn chay nên chúng ta vẫn có thể xoay sở để cứu thế giới này.

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Người dân Anh được kêu gọi để chuẩn bị đối diện với hiểm họa lũ lụt - 22 tháng 12 , 2008

Dựa theo Cơ quan Môi sinh Anh quốc, 2 triệu người dân Anh không ý thức rằng cư gia và tài sản của họ có thể mất nhanh chóng khi nước sông và biển dâng cao. Năm 2007, lũ lụt khốc liệt ảnh hưởng 55.000 căn nhà, với 1.000 gia đình hiện vẫn phải sống tại các nơi tạm trú.

Viên Giám đốc Điều hành của Cơ quan Môi sinh, Tiến sĩ Paul Leinster khích lệ người dân Anh nên thăm dò trên các mạng của chính phủ để biết tài liệu, hầu có thể giúp họ chuẩn bị đầy đủ cho tình trạng lũ lụt có thể xảy ra. Chúng tôi thành tâm cảm tạ Tiến sĩ Leinster và Cơ quan Môi sinh Anh quốc, cho nỗ lực để bảo đảm an toàn cho người dân. Chúng tôi cầu rằng những tai họa tiềm tàng như vầy sẽ giảm bớt nhờ hành động nhân từ của chúng ta đối với đồng loại và môi sinh.

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/se...d=620&page=2#v

MỰC NƯỚC BIỂN DÂNG CAO

Submerged Islands

As the climate continues to warm, entire islands are sinking below rising waters caused from melting glaciers.

Mr. Achim Steiner - United Nation’s Under Secretary General & UN Environment Programme Executive Director - Indeed there are many island nations who are doomed already now, condemned if you want to disappear. Therefore there is no question that we have to act. And that is just the beginning of the visible impact of climate change. The invisible part, the bits that we have not necessarily understood that are happening around us are also on their way.

CLIMATE REFUGEES:

25 million people uprooted in 2007

President Tong of the Island Nation of Kiribati:
We have whole communities, having to be relocated, villages which have been there over a decade maybe the century and now they have to be relocated, and where they’ve being living for the last few decades is no longer there. It has been eroded.

AT LEAST 18 ISLANDS SUBMERGED AROUND THE WORLD:
• Lohachara, India – 10,000 residents
• Bedford, Kabasgadi and Suparibhanga islands near India – 6,000 families
• Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA – 13 islands
• Kiribati – 3 atolls
• Half of Bangladesh’s Bhola Island permanently flooded – 500,000

Paul Tobasi – Government Representative of the Carteret Islands – It’s not their wish to go, but because of the situation; it’s forcing them to move.

ISLANDS SINKING OR AT RISK FROM RISING SEA LEVELS (over 40 nations):

Tuvalu – 12,000 residents with no more fresh drinking water and vegetable plots have washed away

Ghoramara near India – 2/3 submerged as of 2006 with 7,000 residents already relocated

Neighboring island of Sagar – 250,000 residents also threatened

Some 50 other islands jeopardized in the India-Bangladesh Sundarbans, with a population of 2 million

Kutubdia in southeastern Bangladesh lost over 200,000 residents, with remaining 150,000 likely soon to depart

Maldives – 369,000 residents in the Indian Ocean, whose president wants to relocate the entire country

Marshall Islands – 60,000 residents

Kiribati – 107,800 residents, approximately 30 islands submerging

Tonga – 116,900 residents

Vanuatu – 212,000 residents, some of whom have already been evacuated and coastal villages relocated

Solomon Islands – 566,800 residents

Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea – 2,500 residents whose land no longer supports agriculture

Shishmaref in Alaska, USA – 600 residents

Kivalini in Alaska, USA – 400 residents

Over 2,000 other islands in Indonesia

Dubai – 1.2 million residents in the United Arab Emirates considered at risk

There may be more islands, either uninhabited and/or not reported, that have submerged or are sinking due to climate change.

President Tong of the Island Nation of Kiribati:
We may be at the point of no return; our small low lying island will be submerged.
It’s an issue of human survival.If the world community, the different countries don’t kick the Carbon habits, there will be other countries next on the line.

Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai with Supreme Master Television
Los Angeles, California, USA – July 31, 2008

Supreme Master Ching Hai : According to the scientists, there could be more than just one disaster. Rising sea level is not the only worrying event, disease will also rise. They already do so in some parts of the world.

Unless people change to a more benevolent lifestyle that is respecting all lives, then we will beget life and our lives be spared. And nature will restore the balance and repair all damages. I wish to see that day soon, in my lifetime.
The more vegetarian people join the circle, the more chance we have to save the planet.





REFERENCE (original numbers before rounding)

Maldives – 369,031 residents, southwest of India

Marshall Islands – 60,000 residents

Kiribati – 107,817 residents, approximately 30 islands submerging

Tonga – 116,921 residents

Vanuatu – 211,971 residents, some of whom have already been evacuated

Solomon Islands – 566,842 residents

Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea – 2,500 residents

Shishmaref in Alaska, USA – 600 residents

Kivalini in Alaska, USA – 400 residents

Over 2,000 other islands in Indonesia (population not known)

Dubai – 1,241,000 residents in the United Arab Emirates considered at risk


Rajendra Pachauri : There is a grim outcome that the world would have to face, in terms of sea level rise due to thermal expansion alone, and our estimate of this level of increasing sea (level) is 0.4 to 1.4 meters due to thermal expansion alone, and if you add to this the amount of water that would be released and would add to sea level rise on the account of melting of the ice bodies then we already committed the world to a threat, which is going to affect a large number of small island states, low line coast areas across the world that clearly, gives us an absolute warning that we have no time to lose at all and we have to ensure that we start reducing emission of green house gases, as quickly as possible.

President Tong of Kiribati:
I take every opportunity to express our position to explain our situation, as the minister has explained the Kiribati is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Along with our other pacific island relations, of a similar geographical structure and also other countries in other different oceans in another parts of the world which have the same structure that we have.
The Kiribati’s highest point in our Island is about average is about 2 meters above sea level.

I think we are, we might be beyond redemption, we may be at the point of no return, where the emission in the atmosphere will carry on with the momentum, will carry on to contribute to climate change, to sea level rise to the extend that in time, our small low lying island will be submerged. Because one has to feel the reality of the situation, and in order to feel the reality of the situation you have got to be there when the tides are coming over, and your are running around chasing your house goods, because the cases are floating all around, and you are trying to chase them after the waves have come. We have a whole communities, having to be relocated, villages which have been there over a decade maybe the century, and now they have to be relocated, where they’ve being living for the last few decades is no longer there.

It has been eroded. According to the scenarios, the worst possible case scenario, Kiribati will be submerged, within the century. It’s not an issue of economic growth; it’s an issue of human survival. And I think this is the point, it’s about human survival. For some at this point in time. If the world community, the different countries don’t kick the Carbon habits, there will be other countries next on the line, we would have been long gone, but I think the next countries will be next on the line.

Mr Achim Steiner (United Nation’s Under Secretary General & UN Environment Programme Executive Director):
Therefore there is no question that we have to act, and yes maybe there are many countries who will not immediately face the prospects of Kiribati, but indeed there are many island nations who are doomed already now, condemned if you want by the end of this century, to disappear. And that is just the beginning of the visible impact of climate change. The invisible part, the bits that we have not necessarily understood that are happening around us are also on their way.

Paul Tobasi – Government Representative of the Carteret Islands – It’s not their wish to go, but because the situation; it’s forcing them to move. Because today, there is also literally no food people can rely on. I think that is why most people around here are willing to go; to accept the resettlement.



Louise (F): Wonderful. And we’re going to load up those websites, links to those websites of our own because I think that’s incredibly interesting and important. Supreme Master, we move on to environmental refugees. A recent report by the Aid Agency Tearfund, estimated there are currently 25 million environmental refugees, which is more than 22 million officially recognized political and economic refugees.

And according to Dr. Janos Bogardi, Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, environmental deterioration currently displaces up to 10 million people per year. And there are expected to be 50 million environmental refugees by 2010. However, international conventions do not recognize environmental refugees unless such they do not have the same rights to financial and material support. What can we do to help the environmental refugees?


Supreme Master Ching Hai : What can we do? They are refugees definitely. Ur. Because if we don’t have global warming then no one would be a climate refugee, would they? So no one would like to be a refugee in this case. So now, first we can help them to get back on their feet. The one who has meaning… mean and power, yes. We must consider their refugee status, legally, because they are refugees by all means. And by stopping global warming, we can help reduce this refugee issue.



CLIMATE REFUGEES:

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnB362707.html

POZNAN, Poland, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The impact of climate change could uproot around six million people each year, half of them because of weather disasters like floods and storms, a top U.N. official said on Monday.

The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) was making plans based on conservative estimates that global warming would force between 200 million and 250 million people from their homes by mid-century, said L. Craig Johnstone, the U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees.

Johnstone said relief agencies would need to aid almost three million people a year displaced by sudden disasters.

Another three million would likely migrate due to gradual changes like rising sea levels, and be more able to plan.

UNHCR statistics show 67 million people were uprooted around the world at the end of 2007, 25 million of them because of natural disasters.

REFUGEES:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus...0812070932.htm

Speaking on the sidelines of the Dec 1-12 summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Warner said 24 million people around the world had become climate refugees already, according to an estimate made by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

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Lohachara, India, home to some 10,000 people and one of the 102 Sundarban Islands, sank beneath the surface of the Bay of Bengal in 2006, & only 54 of the remaining 102 islands in the Sundarbans, home to 70,000 people, still remain hospitable. http://www.oceana.org/climate/impacts/rising-seas/
13 islands in the Chesapeake bay, Maryland, USA have already disappeared with threat of more to come. http://www.nwf.org/sealevelrise/chesapeake.cfm

Tuvalu (prediction it will be submerged in 50 years) The New Zealand government is already gradually taking in a quota of Tuvaluans each year and has assured Tuvalu that her 10,800 residents can find a home in New Zealand. http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_globalw2.htm, http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php

Cook Islands http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_globalw2.htm

Marshall Islands (where Majuro, one of the Marshall Islands has lost 20 % of its sea front) http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_globalw2.htm
Kirbati http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php
Vanuatu http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php
Fiji http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php
Solomon Islands http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php
Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea (many parts are already uninhabitable) http://www.monstersandcritics.com/sc...ing_sea_levels
Ghoramara (7,000 residents have already been forced to leave as half of the island has been lost to the sea since 1978, and the biggest of the Ghoramara Islands, Sagar, which had been home to refugees from other islands, is at risk of being lost to the sea in 15 years. http://portal.campaigncc.org/node/2261
Indonesia is making plans for relocating people living on islands in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua, where the government expects about 2,000 islands to sink by 2030 or 2040. http://current.com/items/89477012/ma...for_indonesian
_islands_due_to_sea_level_rise.htm

40 Pacific Islands, part of the Alliance of Small Island States, at risk. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...125715575.html
A three foot increase in sea levels would put South Padre Island, Texas, USA under water, with much of Galveston Island uninhabitable. http://www.txnp.org/articles/article...ArticleID=4733
Shishmaref, an island inhabited by indigenous Alaskans in the US are at risk of losing their home of the last 4,000 years. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1926055.shtml

Dubai at risk of being under water in 50 years http://www.arabianbusiness.com/504296
-dubai-will-be-underwater-in-50-years-alerts-branson

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Outlying islands may disappear - 4 Mar 2009

Indonesia risks losing islands due to climate change. With global warming accelerating, Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) researcher Dewi Fortuna Anwar has stated that the outermost islands of the nation are in great danger of being submerged due to rising sea levels. With a total of 17,504 islands, some of which are thought to have already been lost to the sea, it is anticipated that a one-meter rise in sea level would cause 2,000 islands to completely sink along with the disappearance of 405,000 hectares of coastal land.

Our sincere sympathies for those whose lives are impacted by the encroaching coastal waters of climate change. We pray that measures for sustainable living are adopted in nations worldwide for the renewed stability of all lives.

In December 2008, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke with our Association members about the international threat of sinking islands and other calamities linked to global warming.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: We have already at least 18 islands already sink under the sea. Six meters under the sea already. And another 2000 are sinking or at risk of sinking. It’s more or less like that. It will be many places. Earthquakes are everywhere now. Storm, flood everywhere, more than ever before. Every day you see on Supreme Master TV always something.
People begin vegetarian a lot because they want to save the planet. And saving the planet means saving lives.

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'Catastrophic' One-Metre Sea Rise Predicted - 12 Mar 2009

Sea levels predicted to rise to catastrophic levels. During this week’s gathering of some 2,000 participants at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, revisions in anticipated sea level rise were among the concerns expressed by scientists. The latest figure, which accounts for quicker warming oceans and a faster-melting Antarctica and Greenland, now anticipates what could be more than a one meter rise before the century’s end. More than 600 million people could be affected by the submergence of lands such as the US state of Florida and island nations like the Maldives, with an additional number who would be more vulnerable than ever to natural disasters such as storms and floods.

Supreme Master Television was present to speak with the participants, where scientists indicated that present human efforts could and must be faster.

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri – Chair of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), VEGETARIAN (M): We have an enormous amount of inertia which we should be aware of. And that only requires us to take much more vigorous action to bring about change.

VOICE: Political leaders present at the meeting joined in the scientists’ call for urgent change.

Connie Hedegaard - Danish Climate and Energy Minister (F): If we don’t act now, we will stay hostage to outdated energy systems. If we don’t act now, we risk catastrophic changes to our climate causing destabilizing conflicts, and massive migration of refugees due to water and food shortages in many parts of the world. And consequently, if we don’t act now, we ultimately bring our natural security in danger.

VOICE: We are grateful to the scientists and leaders from countries worldwide for revealing these critical insights on the perilous state of our planet. Let us quickly take heed and make the necessary eco-adjustments to save our beautiful and irreplaceable world.

In her response to panelists during the live videoconference for the SOS! International Seminar on Global Warming in Seoul, Korea in May 2008, Supreme Master Ching Hai likewise urged for rapid action, while reminding us of the priority we must place on our food choices.

The SOS! International Seminar on Global Warming Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai
May 22, 2008 – Seoul, South Korea

Supreme Master Ching Hai: We have to change. We have to. That’s the only way we can save ourselves and the planet, and the whole world and all the beings in it. Otherwise, even if we dig a hole into the mountain or under the ground to stay away from the sun’s heat, or we go up in the mountain to avoid the sea rising, there are other calamities that will be coming our way. We should move faster and take more actions. Vegetarian diet – number one. Green energy – number two. Everybody work together to be frugal, and protect the environment and the animals. It’s not that difficult. It’s just the habit that we have to change, that’s all.

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/se...d=714&page=2#v

At current carbon dioxide levels, seas could still rise 25 meters - 03 Jul 2009

In a new study by Dr. Eelco Rohling and scientists at the National Oceanography Center at the University of Southampton, UK variations in sea levels over the past 520,000 years were compared to atmospheric CO2 over the same period.

The research found a close relationship between ongoing rise in sea levels and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Published in the UK-based journal New Scientist, the study concluded that even if CO2 levels remained fixed at what they are today, the sea would still continue to rise 25 meters over the next two millennia.

Dr. Rohling and National Oceanography Center colleagues, we are grateful for this information that highlights the need for even more urgent action to reduce greenhouse gases.

Let us quickly join in adopting sustainable lifestyles to restore the Earth. As we face this urgent time on the planet, Supreme Master Ching Hai has offered her insight and guidance on numerous occasions. In the following August 2008 excerpt from an interview with Ireland’s East Coast FM Radio, Supreme Master Ching Hai addresses the concerns of international scientists regarding global warming.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: According to the scientists, whatever they have predicted or prescribed about our critical situation is accurate up to 99%. They want us to change the way we live our lives, to protect our fragile ecosystem, by cutting down CO2 emissions. And the fastest way that individuals can do, without a lot of protocol and ado, is to be veg.

It’s truly critical now, as we have witnessed increasing disaster worldwide, due to climate change. we still have time, we still have a little time to change the course of destiny, thanks to the vegetarian population, old and new members that reduce the most karmic retribution in the shortest span of time.

Reference

http://www.newspostonline.com/scienc...-2009062561032

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Antarctic shows more warning signs of climate change.

At the recent 2009 Annual Antarctic Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, Dr. Peter Barrett of the Antarctic Research Center at Victoria University said that Antarctic’s rate of ice loss had increased 75 percent since 1996. He went on to say that when Greenland and other glaciers are included in this evaluation, a rise in sea level of 80 centimeters to 2 meters by 2100 is expected. Marine life would also be adversely affected by the resulting warmer and more acidic oceans.

Another study conducted by fellow Antarctic Research Center colleague and Director, Dr. Tim Naish, found that if the West Antarctic ice sheet melts, sea levels could rise by a full five meters.

We appreciate this crucial information, Drs. Barrett, Naish and colleagues. May we quickly heed the urgent call for sustainable lifestyles to halt global warming and save our ecosphere.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has frequently expressed her concern about the dangerous rise in sea levels that is already affecting coastaland island countries. In an August 2008 videoconference with our Association members in New Zealand, she responded to a question about political leaders, conveying her confidence in governments to act on
behalf of fellow citizens.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: What encouragement can we give them to stand up and spread the message to the people to be vegetarian?

I think they will have to, in time. And I hope they do it soon, so that we still have
a chance to save millions, billions of people or the whole planet. What is the useof having economy or political power when everybody is dead?

Even if the leader is still alive, whom would he or she rule if there’s no citizen left? I am worried about your country; it’s a small island surrounded by water. And if the water level
rise then…I don’t want to talk about it.

But I’m sure your leader will realize it sooner or later, that survival is number one. Political position, economic power is number ten, very low, low, low, low down there. First we have to survive.

References:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10582441

http://conferenceworks.co.nz/2009-an...ic-conference/

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_11640463.htm

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/antarctic/...ish/index.aspx

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