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New Age stories

The New Age published a special supplement on climate change, primarily focusing on Bangladesh. All of the articles are worth reading.

Links:

• Living Climate Change - cover
• Climate Snippets
• An A-Z of Climate Change
• A Climate Change Chronology
• Outline of Bangladesh’s position in Bali
• ‘Nations need to be pro-active to face climate change’
• Climate change: a primer
• Coping with natural disasters
• Climate Refugees
• Climate change and its impact on public health
• Can we adapt to climate change?
• Adaptations strategies
• The glacier’s warning
• Swimming against the rising tide
• Oxfam looks ahead to Bali
• Climate change, poverty and geopolitics - an interview of Dr Rejendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC

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Not an early assessment

Some experts may argue but there must be a strong link between super-cyclone Sidr’s ferocity and climate change. Storms are courses of nature; we already read that in school books verified by scientists. However, when we push nature beyond its regular capacity, things may go seriously wrong. This is what happening to our climate now, with obvious help from developed and industrial nations.

In our Bay of Bengal, it’s not impossible for super-cyclones to appear once in two or three decades, but the power that surged through the land this month is beyond imagination. Because of climate change, this sort of more powerful super-cyclones may appear more frequently in our coastal area.

If we, especially the government of this country and law-makers elsewhere around the world, think from now on and find solution to reduce global warming, and adaptation strategies, we will have higher chances to survive as a nation.

Some stories on Sidr:

• Dublarchar only talks of death, devastation (Daily Star)
• Silent queue for succour (Daily Star)
• Big blow to Sundarbans (Daily Star)
• Red Crescent fears toll may top 10000 (Daily Star)
• Sidr: Make a difference (E-Bangladesh)
• Reaching out to Sidr victims (Keep me honest)
• Many updates in The Third World View
• A baby named Cyclone (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying)

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