tallex wrote:
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2099971.ece
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
Geoffrey Lean, reporting for the Indescribablyoverhyped. 'Nuff said.
But just for the record, Lochara is basically a bit of a river delta
(hardly known for their stability and longevity) and according to more
authoritative sources than Lean, it disappeared a couple of decades ago.
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.
You mean, stuff like "Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age
within our lifetime by global warming" (C) Geoffrey Lean 2004
James
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