Posts Tagged ‘Green’

According to forecasts from the GEIC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). The international scientific scene determined that a temperature elevation of 1 degree Celcius will lead to the water levels raising 1 meter. This increase of 1 meter would bring around ground losses of approximately 0.05% in Uruguay, 1% in Egypt, 6% in the Netherlands, 17.5% in Bangladesh and up to 80% in the atoll Majuro in Oceania (Marshall and Kiribati islands and step by step the Maldives islands).
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