[GJM] Global Warming Claims Tropical Island

[marguerite hampton]

Co-learners, 

Global climate change/global warming and ocean rise are now official
recognized events.  

Please do an appropriate "attitude adjustment" and let's get on with 
what needs to be done.  We are going into a "learning curve" 
unprecedented in human recorded history.  Undoubtedly huge 
mistakes will be made as we learn to "live" or "die" by them, just as we 
have in the past.  But isn't this how the world works?   

And, I do believe everyone's intentions are honorable, so let's not be 
too hard on one another as we experiment with "what works" and 
"what doesn't work".    

eco aka marguerite 

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Warming Claims Tropical Island
http://destabilize.blogspot
com/2006/12/global-warming-claims-tropical-island.html
 
For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising
seas. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports:
 
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.
 
Two-thirds of nearby populated island Ghoramara has also been
permanently inundated. Dr Sugata Hazra, director of the university's
School of Oceanographic Studies, says "it is only a matter of some
years" before it is swallowed up too. Dr Hazra says there are now a
dozen "vanishing islands" in India's part of the delta. The area's 400
tigers are also in danger.
 
Until now the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea were expected to be
the first populated ones to disappear, in about eight years' time, but
Lohachara has beaten them to the dubious distinction.
 
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.
 
SOURCE: The Independent
 
 
 
 
 
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