Underwater Cities?Past & Future
Global warming could put three of India’s biggest cities?Bombay, Calcutta and Madras?under water by 2020. There’s evidence it’s happened before: an ancient underwater city has been discovered there. It could also happen to us?if the ice caps melt, London, New York, Miami, Sydney, Shanghai and Tokyo could all end up under water.
Geoffrey Lean writes in the Independent about a German study that says the rate of climate change will soon exceed anything that’s happened “in the last million years.” If nothing changes, the West Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice cap will begin to disappear, leading to sea levels rises which will submerge many coastal cities.
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