It took them two days, but Greenpeace has found a way to tie the tsunami in Southeast Asia to global warming. You see, it’s all about the mangrove swamps!
A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to disasters like tsunamis or storms in future, experts said Monday.
Few coastal ecosystems are robust enough to withstand freak waves like the ones that slammed into Asian nations from Sri Lanka to Thailand Sunday, killing more than 22,000 people, after a subsea earthquake off Indonesia.
But global warming, poorly planned coastal development and other threats over which humans have some control are weakening natural defenses ranging from mangrove swamps to coral reefs that help keep the oceans at bay.
I notice that “human overpopulation” is seldom cited as a problem in the wake of such events. Even Greenpeace knows when an argument becomes an oxymoron.
(ht – Powerline)
update – Juan Cole (one man Al-Zarqawi fan club and professional conspiracy theorist), gets in on the act.
Kate, you seemed to be hammered by this online poker comment spam. Might want to add this joker to your MT blacklist.
Yeah, just got done deleting a bunch of it.
Kate,
You’ve been on a roll lately. I especially liked your Christmas post — knives and hatchets as family gifts? My kind of gal.
There were a lot of sharp edges flying around. Good thing we’re not a physically combative lot.