Disappearing World: Global Warming Claims Tropical Island

DISAPPEARING WORLD: GLOBAL WARMING CLAIMS TROPICAL ISLAND

For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports

UK Independent (12/24/06) -- 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.

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Human cost of global warming: Rising seas will soon make 70,000 people homeless

Refugees from the vanished Lohachara island and the disappearing Ghoramara island have fled to Sagar, but this island has already lost 7,500 acres of land to the sea. In all, a dozen islands, home to 70,000 people, are in danger of being submerged by the rising seas.

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

by the way happy holidays kid

Guess retiring to some tropical isle has lost a bit of its allure now, eh?

courtesy of the USN... trust me, it ain't as nice as people think

;-)

And I have no idea why I would have dreamed that, but felt when I awoke that it had global rather than personal significance. We are already in a planetary shift now. Anything goes...

human activity. It has happened before!!!!

Yes, global climate change has happened before. And it will happen again, many times, before the sun finally goes dark.

But our species wasn't around the last time the planet had this much CO2 in the atmosphere, so forgive me if don't find the "This is just a natural cycle" statements very comforting. The death of species is also a natural cycle. The fact that these events may be perfectly "natural" in the grand scheme of geological time is no guarantee that it won't be fatal, or very damaging, to our species.

it ain't inhabited no more.

Shocking.

Let's maroon Senator Inhofe and former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond on it.

My thoughts exactly.

And that is what this is about. No one person or government is to blame. Of course abandoning the Kyoto protocol is the fault of the administration. But not the cause of this problem. Just the lack of an immediate beginning to a solution.

Multiplicity is what this is about. Every car that has ever started. Every tree that was ever cut down. And it's all in the little acts that we do. Multiplied by a billion. A billion commuters on Monday morning.

And that is what is so subtle about this problem. It looks small on a personal level. But it is magnified by the multiplicity of users. One car is actually a billion cars. One two by four of lumber is whole forests razed.

All we can do at this point is improve efficiency, and decrease consumption. That is all. It's either that, or something very dramatic.

paved over for streets and parking lots and wall to wall building... No cooling effect either where there is nothing but asphalt and concrete. It all counts.

Don't know that I trust the sources.

http://iknowhow.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/vanishing-islands-displaced-climate-casualties-underlying-truth/

http://www.bangladeshinfo.com/news/other_news_head.php?othid=37303