Rising sea threatens China's south- August 31, 2007 Over 1,100 square kilometres (440 square miles) of land in economically booming southern China will be inundated by rising sea-levels by 2050 due to global warming, state press said Thursday. "The Pearl River Delta area, a leading manufacturing hub, will be hard hit by climate change in the coming decades," the China Daily quoted Du Raodong, an expert with the Guangdong provincial weather centrehttp://surgingwaves.blogspot.com/2007/08/rising-sea-threatens-chinas-south.html |