Heed global warning on sinking Shanghai

Shanghai's skyline may look futuristic, but that future is now shadowed by recent comments that the city could be inundated by ocean water by 2050.

Paul Brown, an environmental writer for the British newspaper The Guardian, told a meeting in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province, that rising tides will engulf Shanghai, Tianjin and other coastal cities by 2050 when global temperatures are expected to rise by 2 C.

In fact, Brown is not the first to unnerve residents in Shanghai and other coastal cities with such horrific scenarios.