Environment

Flooded by misery

Global warming will wreck Bangladesh

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WATER EVERYWHERE

  Percentage of mean flooded area in Bangladesh under different land categories for a 6C rise in temperature
Shallow
flooded
Moderately
flooded
Deeply
flooded
Current situation 25 33 42
Results of model 1 20 35 45
Results of model 2 14 31 55
Results of model 3 15 32 53
Results of model 4 19.5 35 45.5

Source: M Monirul Qader Mirza et al 2003, The implications of climate change on floods of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers in Bangladesh, in Climatic Change 57, Kluwer Academic Publishers