Climate change could have a devastating impact on The Philippines, leading to widespread destruction of the country’s flora and fauna and flooding the capital Manila, a NASA scientist has warned.
The continued melting of Arctic ice caps, brought on by climate change, could cause sea levels to rise by seven metres, said US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) physicist Josefino Comiso.
He said the country’s fish stocks would be depleted and many species of plant and animal life would die because of the change in ocean temperatures caused by climate change.
Comiso said the slow melting of the ice caps should be more than “just an item of curiosity” for Filipinos.
“The Philippines is a country that is among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change,” Comiso said. “Slight changes in ocean temperature will lead to coral bleaching which will impact on the coral reefs on which the country’s fishes feed.”
Fish species are already starting to disappear from Philippine waters as delicate coral reefs are destroyed in the archipelago.

Comments

Add New

Write comment

Subject:

Comment: *

Input format

Filtered HTML

• Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
• Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
• Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Full HTML

• Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
• Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA

This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

Math Question: * 1 + 11 =

Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.