December 29, 2006
Dude, where's my island?
Global warming claims it's first inhabited island ahead of schedule
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.
The reason it's not happening yet this far north is that the warming is mostly expanding water, consuming islands close to the equator. As the atmosphere continues to warm, the oceans will absorb more of the heat further north which will have the effect of swallowing up coastal areas in the northern hemisphere. Combine with melting sea ice and things could get very bad, quickly, for a lot of people in this country.
Posted by mcblogger at December 29, 2006 09:10 AM
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