Global Warming Claims Inhabited Tropical Island

[garybeck]

this article was printed in December but it didn't get due attention

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Global warming claims tropical island


For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas.

24 December 2006
The Independent

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, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented

http://solarbus-globalwarming.blogspot.com/2007/04/global-warming-claims-tropical-island.html

[baldguy]

1. How many billions of people around the world live at or near sea level?

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. I've heard 2 out of 3 -

which would make it 4 billion - live within 20 miles of an ocean. Of course, a significant number of them would be well above sea level, but they'd still be affected directly.

[SteppingRazor]

2. How much of this is due to sea-level rise due to global warming?

Versus, say, an increase in severe typhoons and the ongoing destruction of mangrove estuaries?

[Javaman]

5. did you read that article on the mangroves in national geographic by chance?

Great article.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. There are 6000 people in my whole county

and about 12,000 in the town in another county where I work. This would be like the whole county, or most of the town where I work, being underwater.