We’re Doomed
Posted in Environment by George
More evidence of global warming’s alarming consequences. This time: an entire island near India is swallowed by rising sea levels.
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.
This island was once home to 10,000 people. According to this article, rising seas will soon make 70,000 people homeless. Yet another reason to take serious action to both quell global warming and mitigate the effects of future disasters we have already set in motion.
EDIT: Check out this very intriguing website: A World View of Global Warming. It is created by photographer Gary Braasch, who has gone around the world to take pictures of the effects of global warming. Check it out!
EDIT 2: I forgot to mention that my little environmentalist brother Benny sent me this link.
January 28th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Thanks for the credit
January 29th, 2007 at 9:27 am
This is an exaggerated story. Notice that the island is not in the ocean, but in a river delta. There are certainly more factors than global warming working to devour an island that is subject to routine erosion and flooding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohachara_Island
http://www.nowpublic.com/bogus_global_warming_stor...
January 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
You still can’t pass off the issue of global warming completely, because it clearly is a factor, regardless of whether in the delta the sea level rise is quicker than the rest of the world. Furthermore, this article admits to a global sea level rise, and that alone should strike alarm bells.
Furthermore, just because it isn’t happening to a significant level “everywhere” yet doesn’t mean it’s real. And if we wait for catastrophic stuff to happen, it’s way too late.