Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island

[CatWoman]

For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports
Published: 24 December 2006

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.

As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities.

Eight years ago, as exclusively reported in The Independent on Sunday, the first uninhabited islands - in the Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati - vanished beneath the waves. The people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been evacuated as a precaution, but the land still juts above the sea. The disappearance of Lohachara, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented.

It has been officially recorded in a six-year study of the Sunderbans by researchers at Calcutta's Jadavpur University. So remote is the island that the researchers first learned of its submergence, and that of an uninhabited neighbouring island, Suparibhanga, when they saw they had vanished from satellite pictures.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2099971.ece

[rambler_american]

1. Senator Sununu (R-Naturally) denies reality of global warming

http://www.bluehampshire.com/logonSubmit.do

[mikeargo]

2. Thanks for the link

Is this new?

Proud to be Blue in New Hampshire


PS: Sununu is an ass

[Igel]

3. No.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x76189

[rambler_american]

4. Please restate your question.

Not sure what you are asking is new.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. It will take the submerging of coastal islands off the Carolinas

before some of these bozos finally admit there might be a slight raising of temperature, world wide.

[dennis00]

6. USAKA

United States Army Kwajalein Atoll. WE have a Huge investment in the Marshall Islands. Kwajelein's lagoon is the western end of the Pacific Missle Range. Any threat of Kwaj and Roi-Namur being inunated will be treated as an emergency worse than New Orleans ever was. Too bad for the Marshalese on Ebeye and other outlying atolls. Save Kwaj. Save ROI.

[Ilsa]

7. Thanks for posting it. I missed it the first time around. nt

[StClone]

8. More to the story

Mangrove estuaries and coastal mangrove groves protected the Sundarbans from eroding into the sea. Monoculture prawn farming degrades the protective mangrove island buffer and that may be as much a factor as rising ocean levels in the loss of Lohachara.

Read more at: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=20211