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Originator:	Hooligan	Printable Version
Title:	Global Warming

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From: Hooligan	On: 2007/07/19 08:07:43
has the sea level actually risen yet? Nobody seems to answer that one very clearly, although it was suggested in Al Gore's documentary that some islands might have been flooded.

From: Pino Carafa	On: 2007/07/19 08:09:31
Not sure.

From: rid	On: 2007/07/19 08:17:12
I think it has, but not much enough to cause disaster - yet. The article I just read claimed that recent calculations put sea level + 25 cm from present in the year 2050. The main concern now seems to be the fact that glaciers seem to melt faster as they shrink and that could cause the process to speed up a bit over time. /RID

From: Analog_kid	On: 2007/07/19 08:20:14
http://iknowhow...ate-casualties-underlying-truth/ http://news.ind...k/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 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. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohachara_Island http://www.nowp...l_warming_story_lohachara_island

From: Baldrick	On: 2007/07/21 10:54:46
1. Sell cheap Chinese-manufactured flippers 2. ??? 3. Profit!

From: hes	On: 2007/07/31 09:45:02
There are multiple causes[4] of the disappearances of islands in the delta, including sea-level rise (partly due to global warming), coastal erosion, cyclones (while the number of cyclones has decreased, their intensity has increased),[5] mangrove destruction and coastal flooding. Not just gw

From: Hooligan	On: 2007/08/08 02:32:57
yeah we need profit though, luckily profit can now be made from the new global warming industry. carbon offsets, I need a new car so I might go round selling some dubious carbon offset certificates to schmucks

From: Hooligan	On: 2007/08/10 02:02:40
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