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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
An excerpt from Yahoo! News
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The possible impacts of climate change that Singapore is going to face includes increased frequency of flash floods, urban heat island effect and a greater risk of pollution-related health problems. These climate change consequences are non-exclusive and problems such as forest fires in Borneo and threatened rice yields in Thailand could very well affect Singapore drastically.
There is also a possibility of some parts of Singapore may be submerged by 2100, as sea-levels are predicted to rise by a knee-high 65 centimetres, added Hails.
“Major issues are the change in the weather -- it's going to be warmer and wetter. Singapore is very close to sea level and as the planet warms, sea levels are going to rise due to the thermal expansion of sea water, also as polar ice caps melt,” he said.
“So you imagine, it's going to rain more, sea levels are going to rise and it's going to get hotter and it is squeezing Singapore,”
-Dr Chris Hails, chairman of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Singapore
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So instead blaming such occurances of nature on our Government, shouldnt we start embracing what we learnt from our texts back in primary school and start conserving energy, reducing wastages and save our poor earth? Our Ministry of Education did foresee such situations like Global Warming and went ahead to implement education on such matters long before the flash floods.
Ask not of what you think they did not do. Instead, look at what you have failed to give. I feel they have done pretty well thus far.
Cut down on your CFCs - less air-conditioning, more efficient use of resources, more walking.. It's our duty to save the dying world due to the damages we have done. Pointing fingers won't help much.. Labels: Quotes, Random rants
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