On a hotter planet!
Mark Lynas is an activist, journalist & author. He made many appearances in the media as commentator on environmental issues. He is author of High Tide & was also selected as a National geographic emerging explorer in 2006. Mark Lynas tried to let the people know the information he could collect which is truly unique, a degree by degree guide to our future on a hotter planet. After reading this book it made me curious & terrified too. Sunday Times commented: “Our future on a hotter planet-six degrees, I tell you now, is terrifying”. Lynas says six degrees change in day night temperature will do no harm to the earth. But six degrees of global average change is an entirely different prospect. Six degrees as he said was beginning to feel like a survival manual, full of indications about which parts of the globe might need to be abandoned & which would be most likely to remain habitable. It also came to light that global warming is making the hydrological cycle more intense causing heavier storm & more intense hurricanes to brew up out at sea. He said about the misery suffered in New Orleans three years ago. He felt-like an insight into what the twenty first century may have in store for many of us in thousands of locations across the world as climate change accelerates. It further said that thermal inertia of the oceans would take centuries for temperature to stabilize which amply indicated that we have already reached the point of no return. He also said six degrees might be depressing, the impacts are terrifying but they are still avoidable.
Let us see how Bangladesh is going to be affected. At the first strike of climate change a portion of Bangladesh will go underwater with the rise of sea level, putting millions of people homeless and creating pressure on the left out habitable areas.
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