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 Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: RISING SEAS THREATEN ASIAN HUBS |
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Bangkok, Shanghai, Ho Chi Min and Singapore - major city hubs of Asia
- face a higher risk of rising sea levels due to global warming
melting the polar ice caps.
Shanghai is particularly vulnerable, as its rapid building of high-
rise structures has compromised the ground support near the river and
land facing the sea.
China>s financial city centre is located on a low-lying alluvial plain
near the mouth of the Yangtze, one of Asia>s most polluted rivers.
Shanghai like Singapore has been developed close to the ocean and near
the river. Many of the multi-storey constructions have required
artificial landfill.
According to Wang Pingxian, a member of the prestigious China Academy
of Sciences and professor of ocean geology at Tongji University in
Shanghai rising sea levels - caused by global warming - threaten
mostly the Shanghai and Tianjin cities due to land subsidence.
The dyke along Shanghai>s historic riverfront Bund has been raised
three times over the past four decades.
Both the Ho Chi Min and Bangkok cities experience seasonal monsoon
floods when the Mekong and Chao Phraya rivers overflow. These
hazardous events are expected to occur more frequently as the world>s
oceans rise.
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