It is this gargantuan corporate sector, with its powerful and potent US lobby, that engineered the failure of The Hague conference from behind the scenes. As a result of global warming, the scientific community estimates that current sea levels will rise by 1.25 metres over the next century. This may not sound like much to you and me, but scientists predict that rising water levels of only one metre could submerge entire countries like The Netherlands, and some of the world's major cities, including Alexandria, London, New York, Tokyo and Bangkok. A similar rise in sea levels will compromise up to 30 per cent of the world's agricultural land. And if this is not bad enough, keep on reading.
Scientists warn that a more devastating scenario is in the making.
Dutch police hold back demonstrators on their way to the US Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, to protest against CO2 pollution last week. Concentrated at the poles, global warming has already caused massive fissures in some of Antarctica's major ice sheets. Three million cubic kilometres of melting ice will raise ocean levels worldwide by six metres, destroying life as we know it. The nitty gritty of determining the make-up of ocean currents and climates are highly complex, but knowledge of impending weather disasters caused by global warming has trickled down from the scientific community to the public at large. This established a horrendous global record, reported the British-based environmental watchdog Corporate Watch.