On 13 Aug., 10:09, Surfer wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:57:38 +1000, "nbzoo" wrote:

Guilt about hypothetical global warming is a social pathology restricted
largely to wealthy, middle class, western societies.

Perhaps. But others have more serious problems.

Bangladesh's global warninghttp://www.theage.com.au/world/bangladeshs-global-warning-20081010-4y...

NASIR Ahmed is terrified of the full moon. In the dead of night three
weeks ago it brought with it an unprecedented tidal surge to his
coastal village on the island of Bhola in southern Bangladesh. Nasir's
home was swallowed up, leaving him, his wife Nasima, and their six
children destitute.

"I was quite well set up before, but my situation has become
desperate," says the fisherman, who earns less than $1 a day. "We are
now going without food."

Nasir's family has taken refuge in an abandoned hut on a crumbling
embankment a few metres from the new shoreline. When the next full
moon comes, the tide could devour that shelter as well.

Bhola's unique geography has put it at climate change ground zero.

It is a flat sliver of land 15 kilometres wide and 150 kilometres long
flanked by huge rivers to the east and west and the Bay of Bengal to
the south.

Increased temperatures in the Himalayas means a torrent of additional
melt-water from glaciers is gushing down the great rivers of India —
the Ganges and the Brahmaputra — into the Bangladesh delta country,
causing savage erosion. At the same time the nation's coastal areas
are being gradually inundated by the rising sea. Bhola is also
cyclone-prone and likely to experience more frequent and extreme
storms as sea temperatures rise due to global warming.

But Bhola is also home to nearly 2 million people, ensuring that the
experience of Nasir Ahmed and his family will be replicated over and
over again as global warming reshapes Bangladesh.

Bangladesh always had this sort of problem. This is a cynical comment,
but, they are in deep snip with or without global warming.

Carsten