how is this NOT alarmist?

Okay, I see your point--though I'd like to think it inspired me to think, rather than freak out. And I'd just never seen a "global warming" story that was so beautifully done. That's all

I know, I know. It's just funny you prefaced it with not being alarmist.

Did they give a projected timeline?

I bet in 1772, they thought the excessive warm weather was here to stay too.

Old news...

I noticed India made the list, but not Bangladesh. It might be just in the armpit of the rest of the subcontinent, but Bangladesh is a country sinking dramatically. If Hurricane Sidr hadn't been enough, the country is looking at another terrible storm season along with the monsoon.

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/climate-migration/

Wow, I just checked out the whole article. Sad.

Intersting. I feel like growing up in CA that people used to say that the coast was also at risk.

I thought the great barrier reef WAS underwater already....

UnDave, that's funny. I was curious so I read the article and it said that the reef, due to high temperatures in the ocean, will have a negative impact. But I had the same thought! Are they also going to include Atlantis?

LONDON?! %@$#!!!!

I'm surprised that I did not see Venice Italy on the last unless I missed it. I watched a documentary either on Discovery or History about it and it was referred to as the sinking city.

As for New Orleans I question whether it would even be on the list if it wasn't for the decades of dredging to make the channel deep enough for ships to pass. The Mississippi river naturally dumps sediment at the mouth of the gulf which over time builds up land mass. Resulting in a natural barrier (wet lands) which provide protection from flooding. We tried to compensate for the loss of wet lands with a levy system and obviously that did not work too well.

I'm with you Jude. London is my favorite place on the planet.

Yeah--I'd better move there before it starts sinking

I think global warming is the largest scam in history. The temps have risen and fell throughout time. I'm sick of all of the environmentalist wackos.

I get so fascinated when these stories are linked to Yahoo, I just like to keep hitting refresh to see how many people read it for those like 10 seconds!

Ah, it's started already... cabaker.

we have to be alarm, this is just one of the many SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

Run before they get here!

global warming is a hoax. thats all there is to it. it has been scientifically proven that the yay sayers are wrong and the nay sayers are right. i still think that people are the leading cause of polution, and thus we should do something about the population. so i say let the wars continue until this planets population is at normal levels.

It is alarmist. UK may be having the warmest May but the earth had the coldest April. And 2007 actually got cooler. Let's go for some balance!

Global warming is a hoax created by self serving socialist who seek to control people.

Give up the global warming idea. Human beings are just ants compared to what a super volcano can do. Besides, this planet was known as the watery Tiamat. Someday, it may go back to being just that, with or without a bunch of little ants burning fossil fuels.

Great Barrier reef *is* underwater. It's visited for the coral reefs, right? Corals are susceptible to temperature variations, in effect killing them, resulting in "bleaching" or coral patches dying.

Some of the european cities aren't just subject to rising water levels but floods too. London and Venice both have pretty elaborate flood barriers.

Why do people write such stupidity and not check out facts first. First off the rate of sea level increase has not changed for thousands of years. Second, according to the data that scientists gathered from over 800 bouys at in the world's oceans the temperature of the worlds oceans has actually gone down 1 degree since they started taking measurements. Third the average world temperature went down 1 degree last year and wiped out the total increase for the last 10 years before that. 30 years ago some of the same scientists were worried about the earth going into an early ice age. Think people and stop listening to Al Gore.

"i still think that people are the leading cause of polution"

I don't think that was ever in doubt...

With that being said, since it is a fact that we as a species are polluting the earth and are damaging the environment, perhaps it would be wiser to focus less on who's right about global warming (or who's right about its severity and eventual apocalyptic--or not--consequences), and more on what we can do to mitigate the damage we definitely have done to the world we live in.

Sea levels have been rising and the polar ice caps melting since the end of the last ice age.

Presently they're rising at a fraction of a millimeter per year.

Meanwhile it's no warmer than it was 10 years ago - in fact it's cooler than it was last year and the year before that and the year before that.

Lastly, there's always "weird weather" - the suggestion that somehow the Burmese cyclones were caused by global warming is baseless.

So I would suggest to you that we have plenty of time before London or Manhattan sink into the ocean.

I'd love to get out to one of these places that the Global Warming Mafia has put on the endangered list; however, I've got to sell my lush, green ski resort in Tennesse that I bought in the late 70's when we were told the next Ice Age was coming! I can't believe that people gobble this stuff up like it was healthy.

GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A HOAX- AL GORE IS THE HOAX. GLOBAL WARMING AND COOLING IS A NATURAL OCCURRANCE AND WE ARE DUE FOR A GLOBAL COOLING PROCESS SOON. I JUST HOPE IT STABILIZES BEFORE WE LOSE ALL OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PLACES.

He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight; they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them.

You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth.

-God
(Psalms 104: 5-9)

You people need to get a hold of the March April 2008 Issue of the MENSAN magazine....there are a lot of contradictions to the global paradigm of the Earth is Warming Up and we are in a lot of trouble.......read it and then ask yourself why would these smart people, influential people, and rich people be pushing something that really isn't a real threat....why indeed.

The Earth hasn't raised more than .8 degrees since the 1800's and in some places gotten cooler, and then others stayed the same for great lengths of time.

Somebody has something to sell, it hasn't quite hit yet but it is going to be big....something that we will all have to have....it may even be sanctioned by the Government as mandatory...they may give credits for it....to ease the cost..but I am betting soon...next 2 years or 3.

Why are gas prices so high..if A: There is no Shortage(OPEC) admits it..B: Our reserves are full 97%...and C: Oil companies are putting down double digit billions profit on their books.

This is not a political shot..but when Clinton was in office do you remember gas being at .70-.80 a gallon...just what is so different from now and then....WAR and 911 excluded.

Al Gore is a hoax!

That is my new catch phrase!

Other than the global warming alarm, this story is of little interest to me. I have done extensive research on global warming and the real science is that the antarctic glacier is actually thickening, and there has been no rise in sea level. The alarmists do not want you to know this little fact either but, people have zero influence on the slightly warmer climate lately.

Holy crap! This is one of the stupidest articles ever written! Please don't write on stuff you have no idea about! It sure isn't any warmer here in Michigan.. Find a real topic to talk about. This has been scientifically disproven but nobody know that. They only know what silly writers type about. You should have to sit on your hands for a day for this!!!

Yep, and pretty soon, California is going to be an island due to the fault line moving away from Central California. It's a lie too. Actually, in a billion years or so, San Francisco will be a "sister city" of Seattle. "It was the hottest May since 1772". So you're saying it was hotter over 240 years ago...sound cyclical to me. Why don't we worry about how much smog we breathe (which is killing us now) instead of things that will make our world look ugly thousands of years from now. Buy a hybrid and cut back on driving until hydrogen cars come out. Quit yelling at Bush because the democratic congress is holding his initiatives back. Start yelling at them because he's done more for global warming than Clinton ever did.

Let the games begin...

and unite!

I think this article is hogwash! Has anyone really explored the science surrounding global warming? Does anyone know what this fight against the climate is going to cost you, the everyday consumer? I think the govt is trying to implement a new social agency with the taxes collected from those who "warm" the earth.......lol

It does have a nice ring to it, cabaker!

Oh, and

This is what happens when people like Al Gore are taken seriously.

Another scare tactic by the left. The world has actually been cooling over the last few years, but Al Gore says were in trouble, so we must be. Just ask him. I have some swamp land to sell. Any buyers?

The world is a much tougher place than it's given credit for. It will easilly survive, so will we!!!

Nice to see that Universities are pumping out educated morons and calling them jounalists. I guess you missed the latest and greatest science that says the earth hasn't warmed in 10 years and we're now probably facing a 15-20 year cooling trend. Research 101.