Planet in Peril - CNN

Anderson Cooper trumps again with his mindblowing, balanced analysis of the issues on both sides of the global warming debate.
Seeing and hearing at first hand the reports and feelings of people from the Carteret Islands: These Islands, since 2005 have progressively become uninhabitable, with an estimate of their total submersion by 2015. The islanders have fought a more than twenty years battle, building a seawall and planting mangroves. However, storm surges and high tides continue to wash away homes, destroy vegetable gardens and contaminate fresh water supplies. The natural tree cover on the island is also being impacted by the incursion of saltwater contamination of the fresh water table. Or is the bleaching of the coral reefs which limits their natural ability to protect against storm surges, bleaching also caused by global warming>

Greenland, whose ice sheet is melting faster than computer generated models expected, and whose ecosystem is in danger of disappearing, with the main attraction, the polar bears

>Lake Chad Lakes disappear, glaciers melt, are floods next?

Reports stated that a Lake, situated more than 2000 miles from the capital Santiago, Chile, has disappeared ! A body of water the size of ten football fields usually filled with water up to 30 metres deep is dry situated some 2000 miles and usually fed by the surrounding glaciers! One main reason put forward is the seismic frequency in the region.

It was reported that the Patagonia glaciers of Chile and Argentina are melting so fast they are making a significant contribution to sea-level rise.

Lake Chad, once one of the African continent’s largest bodies of fresh water, has dramatically decreased in size due to climate change and human demand for water. Once a great lake close in surface area to North America’s Lake Erie, Lake Chad is now a ghost of its former self.

Lake Songor in Ghana is rapidly shrinking, partly as a result of intensive salt production, and the extraordinary changes in the Zambezi river system as a result of the building of the Cabora Basa dam site.