A Sick Earth

Pakistan is struggling to recover from its worst flooding in 80 years

Russia has seen the longest unprecedented heat wave for at least one thousand years

Christchurch quake is the worst to hit New Zealand since 1931

China hit by the worst floods in 12 years

Victoria Australia floodwaters not seen in 30 years

Singapore hit by the worst flood since 1978

So where did the water came from ?



Recent warm summers accelerated the mass loss to 273 Gt per year (Gt is the mass of 1 cubic kilometre of water), in the period 2006-2008, which represents 0.75 mm of global sea level rise per year.

Professor Jonathan Bamber from the University of Bristol said: "It is clear from these results that mass loss from Greenland has been accelerating since the late 1990s and the underlying causes suggest this trend is likely to continue in the near future.



In a first-of-its-kind study, Professor Eric Rignot, a scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, estimated Antarctica’s ice loss will raise global sea level by 0.3 millimeters a year in 1996, to 0.5 millimeters a year in 2006.

The earth is having a flu. The virus is humans.