Bangkok should be under water in 20 years?

Question

Do you believe on it? http://thailand-daily-news.blogspot.com/2007/05/expert-bangkok-should-be-under-water-in.html

Answer 1

no problem my condo is on the 25 floor.

Answer 2

Asians are just not very eco-conscious. Westerners have to set a better example and try to show them the way, because most of them just don't get it.
Bangkok used to be a charming laid back city full of canals, but in the last 30 years all those lovely canals (klongs) were filled in and made into roads to accommodate the traffic jams,, so now, of course, the city is more susceptible to flooding, and only adds to global warming.
The pace there in the last 30 years has gone from laid back to Heart attack frantic.So, I only HOPE that city gets flooded and erased off the map. It will teach them a lesson in ecology.

Answer 3

It's one of the results from global warming. Most of New York city is to be under water as well. Is it true? I think any one living below sea level should be concerned.

Answer 4

It will become Water World.

Answer 5

Of course. Many parts of the world are reputedly sinking. We're all gonna die. Learn to swim.

Answer 6

I can believe it if the earth keeps warming up. Scary thought. C

Answer 7

Asia has few plans yet to deal with rising seas.

AlertNet is a network established by the Reuters Foundation to alert humanitarians to emergencies.

May 4, 2007 (Reuters) - Asia’s population is most at risk from rising sea levels and more powerful storms, but few countries in the region have made detailed plans to deal with the hazards their coastlines and ports would face.

Scientists have predicted a dire future of human-induced global warming causing rising sea-levels that could drown low-lying areas and hit Asia hard, though experts agreed in a U.N. report on Friday fighting climate change was affordable.

“In most of Asia, if you put that on a list of priorities it falls off the bottom of the page,” said Steve Williams, head of Energy Solutions, which does consultancy work on industry services such as ports and infrastructure.

BUT - One in 10 people, mainly in Asia, live in coastal areas most at risk, an international study published last month found.

The researchers said many countries cannot afford Dutch-style dykes but urged governments to make billion-dollar policy shifts in long-term planning to encourage more settlements inland.

Limiting global warming to a 2 degrees centigrade rise would cost just 0.12 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with the technology available, a U.N. climate change report said on Friday after days of wrangling at talks in Bangkok.

The Thai capital could be under water in 20 years because of rising seas from global warming and subsidence, a top Thai climate expert, who warned of a tsunami years before the 2004 disaster, told Reuters in an interview this week. Smith Dharmasaroja, head of Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Centre, said the city of 10 million people was sinking at an alarming rate and to avert disaster it needed to construct a massive sea wall. He said the government did not pay attention.

RECLAIMED LAND
For fellow southeast Asian country Singapore, where low-lying land has been reclaimed from the sea in recent decades, global warming is a big threat to its future, the city-state’s founder Lee Kuan Yew told Reuters in an interview last week.

“What dykes can we build? Where do we get materials for the dykes? Do we excavate the sea bed? We are into a very serious problem,” Lee said.

Even so, experts say wealthy Singapore — known for organisation and efficiency — is the most likely country to push ahead with sea defences to avoid being partly submerged under six metres (20 feet) of water in a worst case scenario. “The first country that would really start thinking about this is Singapore — they have a lot of landfill,” said Energy Solutions’ Williams.

Neighbouring Indonesia, which banned sand exports for land reclamation to Singapore this year, has said it could lose 2,000 islands by 2030. It has been drafting a national strategy to deal with climate change.

Ranked by population, China is most at risk to rising sea levels with 143 million people living by the coast, followed by India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan.
Regional powerhouse China is expected to be vulnerable along its storm-prone southeastern coastline, though government environmental protection efforts have been more committed to tackling rampant air and water pollution.

In India, where ports are being expanded to boost fuel shipments from its booming oil refining sector to a region hungry for more fuel, environmentalists say coastal development has reduced natural sea defences such as sand bars and mangroves.

“We need to understand these things, their implication and certainly a strategy needs to be worked out — but it’s not that we have a plan tomorrow,” said P.S. Goel, Secretary at the Ministry of Earth Sciences. “Something needs to be done for the ports … certainly we all are worried.”

Answer 8

yes it one of the country affected by the gobal warming

Answer 9

Scareware if it's not accurate, they should talk to the Dutch if it is true.

Answer 10

yup. cos of global warming.. we should raise our concern on this issue