That would have serious consequences, including sea level rises, heatwaves and changes to rainfall meaning dry regions get less and already wet areas receive more.
"Equally, a continuation or acceleration of their behaviour has serious implications for sea level rise.
Cities like New Orleans and Norfolk, Virginia, face serious challenges from sea level rise.
Further south, Miami is facing serious infrastructural issues as its sea level rises – and, in response, it's creating innovative financing models to tackle situations in which traditional funding won't suffice.
Over the weekend, I've learned a lot through my own research and through contacts within the industry about BP's blowout well, Mississippi Canyon Block 252, and, even though BP and Transocean remain silent as to the condition of the wellhead and BOP (blowout preventer), it seems that consensus is growing that the damage to the stack, 5,000 feet below sea level, is serious and likely irreparable.
The first part of a series known as the "Vancouver Island films," "A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea" is on the primary level an attempt to evoke the childhood landscape of Brakhage's second wife, Marilyn, a native of British Columbia.
What'll it take to engender any kind of serious response to the threat of sea level rise?
"It shows glaciologists believe there is a one-in-20 chance of sea levels rising by a metre or more by 2100, and a metre rise in sea level is really very serious.
Even draconian emission controls would only limit sea level rise to a serious 40-centimeter rise by 2100.
Namely, the global warming may cause serious local climate change as well as the rise in the sea level, which give severe damage to the societies worldwide.
