Gambia is (unfortunately) mentioned in this sobering report.
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:05:23 EST
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Global Warming Report Findings
.c The Associated Press
A breakdown of the regional consequences of global warming, outlined in U.N.
report issued Monday:
Asia:
Low ability to adapt in much of the region. High temperatures, drought,
floods and soil degradation likely will diminish food production in arid,
tropical and temperate parts of Asia. Northern areas may see an increase in
productivity. Rises in the sea level and more intense tropical cyclones
likely will displace tens of millions of people in low-lying coastal areas of
temperate and tropical Asia.
Australia and New Zealand:
A more mixed picture. Impact on some temperate crops may initially be
positive, but this will likely alter with further climate change. Much of the
region may dry out, but there will also be more, intense heavy rains and
cyclones resulting in flooding, storm and wind damage.
Europe:
Southern Europe will become more prone to drought. In other areas, flood
hazards will increase. Half of Alpine glaciers and large permafrost areas
could disappear by the end of the 21st century. Heat waves may change
traditional summer tourist destinations and less reliable snow conditions may
hurt winter tourism. Agricultural productivity may increase in northern
Europe but decrease in southern Europe.
AFRICA:
Low ability to adapt. Grain yields are expected to decrease, and there will
be less water available. Reductions in average annual rainfall, especially in
southern, northern and western Africa, could create new desert areas. Coastal
settlements in Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Egypt and along the East-Southern
African coast will be hit by rising sea levels and coastal erosion.
Infectious disease carriers like mosquitos will multiply. This will combine
to ``constrain development in Africa.''
Latin America:
Floods and droughts will become more frequent. Yields of important crops
likely will decrease in many parts of Latin America. Subsistence farming in
northeastern Brazil could be threatened. Exposure to diseases such as malaria
and cholera likely will increase.
North America:
Food production could benefit from modest warming, but there will be strong
regional effects like declines in Canada's prairies and the U.S. Great
Plains. Sea level rises could increase coastal erosion, flooding and lead to
more storm surges, particularly in Florida and the Atlantic coast. Diseases
like malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease may expand their ranges in North
America, and there likely will be more heat-related deaths.
Polar:
Climate change in polar regions is expected to be among the largest anywhere
on Earth. Already, the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice have decreased,
permafrost has thawed and the distribution and abundance of species has been
effected. The trends may continue even long after greenhouse gas emissions
are stabilized and cause irreversible impact on ice sheets, global ocean
circulation and sea levels.
Small island states:
A projected sea level rise of two tenths of an inch per year for the next 100
years will increase coastal erosion, damage ecosystems, cause loss of land
and dislocate people. Coral reefs will be damaged and fisheries harmed.
Tourism - an important source of income - likely will face severe disruption
from climate change and sea level rise.
AP-NY-02-19-01 0501EST
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QUOTATION:
"Our struggle is a struggle of the African people. It is a struggle for the
right to live. I have dedicated my life to this struggle. I have fought
against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have
cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons
live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal for
which I hope to live and to see realised. But, my lord if it needs be, it is
an ideal for which I am prepared to die"
- <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/GhanaUnion/afrohero.html">Nelson
Rohlihlahla Mandela</A>
His last moving speech in court before he was sentenced to life imprisonment
in 1964
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