In an expedition supported by the Royal Geographic Society, three friends departed over a year ago on a trip along the Atlantic coastline. The group plans to trace what the coastline is expected to look like in 100 years if global climate change continues at current rates. Tim Bromfield, Lynn Morris and Will Lorimer, left from London in September 2009, and have since driven around the west coast of Ghana and across the ocean to Brazil, where they started the North American portion of their trip.
The mission of the excursion is to learn how climate change is affecting people across the globe, and how it will affect them in the future by exploring areas along the coast that will certainly face rising oceans in the near future.
From Explorers Web:
Team member Tim Bromfield explained their aim, “We are trying to highlight how climate change is affecting people around the ocean in very different ways but that it is happening now.”
“It can no longer be thought of as a problem for the future but it is something millions of people are experiencing on a daily basis. This is frighteningly under reported in the UK at least.”
“We are researching and sharing the innovative means communities are using to mitigate or adapt to rising sea levels.”
[Via: Explorersweb]
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