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Karachi sinks by 2100
Syed Mujahid Ali Shah Form Germany
Email: syed@hotmail.de
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Karachi is the second home to all the remote people of Pakistan
including the People from Gilgit Baltistan. We should think about this
city equally as we think about Gilgit ,Chilas Skardu or any other city
in the Northern areas. On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is "unequivocal," and that human activity has "very likely" been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had "likely" played a role. |
The greenhouse effect has been part of the earth's workings since its
earliest days. Gases like carbon dioxide and methane allow sunlight to
reach the earth, but prevent some of the resulting heat from radiating
back out into space. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would never
have warmed enough to allow life to form. But as ever larger amounts of
carbon dioxide have been released along with the development of industrial
economies, the atmosphere has grown warmer at an accelerating rate: Since
1970, temperatures have gone up at nearly three times the average for the
20th century.
The latest report from the climate panel predicted that the global climate
is likely to rise between 3.5 and 8 degrees Fahrenheit if the carbon
dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reaches twice the level of 1750.
By 2100, sea levels are likely to rise between 7 to 23 inches, it said,
and the changes now underway cannot be stopped will continue for centuries
to come.
As a result Karachi where sea level now is higher than its land may sink
in 2100
Best of luck Karachities.