Article of the Week
- President wants to evacuate because of rising sea levels
- glaciers are melting because of climate changes
- people are already building sea walls
- severity of storms may increase
- poverty prevents residents from moving
- agricultural areas are now dry
- politicians need policies to help people move elsewhere
- sea level is increasing by 3.2 mm per year
- 70% of world's megacities are close to the coast
- 25-700 million people could become climate refugees
- thermal expansion causes sea water to increase in volume
- 1/3 of Katrina victims have not been localized
- Permafrost in Alaskan cities is melting
- some towns in Alaska have evacuated
- us govt has help evacuate in Alaska
- Human activities such as burning fossil fuels increases global warming.
**What difficulties might you face if you had to leave your home and resettle somewhere else?
If I had to move and resettle somewhere else, I would face not having enough water, due to climate change. Along the coast, you have rising sea levels because the Earth's temperature is heating up, but you still have water. When you move to an area that is not close to the coast, you face an area that is dry, without water, and in drought.