Prediction made by: Al Gore Topic: Sea Level Rise Year: 2024 About 10 million people in Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level.
Outcome: Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh’s landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually.
Maminul Haque Sarker, head of the department at the government-owned centre that looks at boundary changes, told AFP [Agence France-Presse] sediment which travelled down the big Himalayan rivers—the Ganges and the Brahmaputra—had caused the landmass to increase. …“Satellite images dating back to 1973 and old maps earlier than that show some 1,000 square kilometres of land have risen from the sea,” Sarker said.
