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BANGLADESHI HONDA VICTIM OF SAVAGE OCEANS
Australian media space-filler Richard Neville transcribes the voices in his head:
Right now, villages in Bangladesh are disappearing into the sea. The warming of the Indian ocean intensifies drought in southern Africa. Low lying Pacific islands are starting to sink. Everyone knows this, because the ice caps are melting on the evening news.
Those low-lying islands are sinking, Richard? Guess we should investigate some kind of undersea subsidence problem instead of this “global warming” nonsense everyone is talking about. Richard presents photographic proof of the crisis in Bangladesh:
In Richard’s world, motorcycles float.
(Via Tex)
Bangladeshi has always had problems with flooding, because the topography of the land. According to the CIA world factbook about a third of the country experiences flooding every year during monsoon season. The reason that the flooding does so much damage is that many poor people in Bangladeshi live and farm in flood plains. In fact much of the country’s terrain is dominated by the delta’s of three major rivers. So I think, monsoon rain, having major rivers that can and often do overflow their banks, and typhoons have more to do with the flooding than melting ice caps. By the way, according to scientists the Antartic ice is actually increasing in volume, not melting.
Is there ANY evidence that sea-levels have risen AT ALL?
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 06 25 at 02:44 PM • permalinkJeremy, fix whatever problem your email is having (I am getting your bounced messages) or at the very least go into your profile and deselect the reply-to box (see the directions under the comment box).
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 06 25 at 04:06 PM • permalinkAmazing. Those icecaps are melting so fast that poor Bangladeshi couldn’t even roll his moped out of the way in time.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 25 at 04:39 PM • permalinkWhy doesn’t the mopey Bangladeshi wade back on to dry land rather than crying there on a piece of corrugated iron?
And hell, everyone else seems rather calm about this apparent ecological disaster.
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 06 25 at 06:37 PM • permalinkThanks, Jeremy.
Yeeks, I just visited Neville’s web page. What horrid design—straight outta 1999. And is that a picture of his funny uncle, that guy in the hat?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 06 25 at 09:00 PM • permalinkErnieG, They probably will be a little submerged in the spring after another heavy annual snowfall in the high country begins to thaw. For skiers it’s another winter of content. For global warming worriers, its, um, ... er, cold up there, but, oh, er, it’s cold down here, too. I tell you, there’s manmade global warming around here somewhere. It’s real close, I know. Don’t worry, it’ll show up soon.
In the meantime, a farmer in the semi-arid area of South Australia was on ABC radio before announcing the best season ever for grain-growing. He’s from a region that was ravaged by bushfires just six months ago.
And some egg-heads reckon they can predict the weather everywhere on the planet 50 years from now.slatts,
The “man-made global warming” theories are so nebulous that any unusual weather phenomena can be “directly” attributed to it.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 06 25 at 11:29 PM • permalinkMy uncle tells me he vaguely remembers a song by Tiny Tim in the 1960s?
“The ice-caps are melting, the tide is rushing in
All the world is drowning, to wash away the sin ..”That was nearly 40 years ago.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 06 26 at 03:16 AM • permalinkSince posting above I have googled. Tiny Tim’s song was called “The other side” and was released in 1968. Let’s see, that’s as i make it, 37 years ago. I don’t think sea-levels have risen measurably since then ...
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 06 26 at 03:21 AM • permalinkMaybe Bangladesh is sinking because Richard Neville might set foot there. If so, that part of the continental simply couldn’t handle all of his shit.
Wait, doesn’t Neville live in Australia? Maybe you ought to move him to France.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 26 at 03:59 AM • permalinkWith Photoshop skills like that, I bet he gives a great presentation. Why not book Richard to give a speech at your next social gathering?
Posted by James Waterton on 2005 06 26 at 06:19 AM • permalinkActually sea levels change all the time.
One to two thousand years ago sea levels were lower than they are now (its why the Netherlands now have dikes btw), but two thousand years before that sea levels were much higher than the present day. For example, it is thought that the harbour Cadiz in Spain was actually a chain of islands 3500 years ago.
On that basis many pacific islands were well under water then. Just as well they have only been occupied for 500-1000 years (depending on the island).
I don’t have any idea what Bangladesh would have looked like then, as the topgraphy could have been very different. At a guess I would suspect it was deep water, which has been slowly filled in by the river deltas since that time, in addition to the lower sea levels.
You’re right, entropy, but that would mean humans aren’t causing the ocean to rise, it’s a natural effect. This would put fools like Richard Neville and the greenies out of work. Couldn’t have them on the dole, now, could we?
tsk, tsk, man! Get with the program, would you? 8^D
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 26 at 08:41 AM • permalinkSpiny Norman — It’s not “global warming” anymore; it’s “global temperature change.” Try to keep up. Whichever way it goes is mankind’s fault.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 26 at 08:19 PM • permalinkEasy, don’t have any evening news - that should stop the ice from melting.
My grandma had a place on Lake Macquarie on the NSW north coast and I remember 40 years ago that the water was higher than it is now by about 18 inches to 2 feet.
If it’s getting hotter (global warming) shouldn’t it be getting wetter - more rain?
Oh, hang on, that’s right, now it’s just called ‘climate change’.
yeah, right.
Here is further incontrovertible evidence (well, probably good enough for Richard, anyway) proving that the ice caps have been melting since 1961.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 06 27 at 05:56 AM • permalinkOMFG, that is one of the WORST pieces of photo manipulation I’ve ever seen. I hope whoever did that didn’t sink much money into a graphics program. I could do better with Paint Shop Pro and a 386. I’m going to have to check out that site and see what other atrocities are there.
Posted by mamapajamas on 2005 06 27 at 09:52 PM • permalink“The militarisation of outer space, the “fourth dimension of warfare”. According to documents on its websites, US Air Force Space Command is developing nuclear warheads and versatile spacecraft that can strike any target on earth within minutes.”
The US Air Force Space Command?????
WTF is this charcter ON???? An overdose of Buck Rogers???
Posted by mamapajamas on 2005 06 27 at 10:03 PM • permalink3. Jeremy:
You are correct. Bangladesh is battered by the floods which is of greater concern than the rising of sea levels.
Moreover sea level is rising @ 2mm/y. At this rate in 100 years there will be 20 cms rise in sea level (as in last century). I hope Bangladesh will have enough time to develop protections against the impact of the same.
About the picture: Some eye-openers for Richard Neville -
1) Along the sealine there are usually beaches and barren shores and the locality is a bit far. If one needs to believe in the picture then we should be talking about a rise in sea levels atleast 2 meters high which isn’t the reality.
2) If sea levels rises by one meter, it will first affect the riverines and cause flood, the sparsely populated sea shores will suffer less casualties than the population clustered around the riverlines.
3) In coastal areas you will see boats not Hondas.I guess Richard would have had some kind of credibility if he used pictures of Bangldesh from Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/tags:Bangladesh,beach/tagmode:all/?page=3
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*squints hard at picture*
Huh?