2007May9: “Major river deltas are at severe risk from projected sea level rise. (Besides) the Niger River delta flooding; other examples that could pose disastrous conditions are the Nile delta in Egypt, and of course the Mouths of the Ganges delta in Eastern India and Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated and stressed locations on the planet. Sea level rise has the potential to displace tens of millions of people from this area with potentially serious destabilizing effects in a region that is strategically and economically important to the US,” said Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.) Former NASA Administrator Shuttle Astronaut and the First Commander of the Naval Space Command delivering testifying before the Committee on Foreign Relations US Senate (Truly, 2007).
Reference: Richard H. Truly testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations US Senate. http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2007/hrg070509a.html
Image Description: The river Niger in Bamako, Mali. Picture taken by Didier Coeurnelle, 2006. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Mali_Niger.JPG Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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