100 Amazing Places That Will Be Destroyed by Climate Change

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/151215/100_amazing_places_that_will_be_destroyed_by_climate_change/

The new book "100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear" highlights what will be lost if we don't take action now on global warming.

A father's desire to show his children the consequences of climate change culminated in the book, 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear, which shows some beautiful places in the world at risk of loss from global warming. Publisher Gaute Hogh uses the power of photographs to illustrate that climate change should not be a political football: Many cultures, places and species are now threatened by our failure to effectively address climate change.

A Web site with an interactive map provides links to 100 places, including the "Land of the thunder dragon" in Bhutan where increasing snow melt threatens water flows that cause landslides and floods "damaging farmland, housing, infrastructure and the ancient dzongs (fortress monasteries)."

The plains of central Asia where the pastoral life of Mongolian nomads (who have roamed the area for the last 3,000 years) is threatened because of new rainfall patterns and increased temperatures. Major cities like Caracas, Venezuela face extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and rainstorms that threaten people and infrastructure with floods and landslides; and Chicago, where heat waves and flooding may result in more health impacts as well as damage the city's vibrant tourism industry.

More at the link --