Posted on 01/19/2018 7:07:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
KUTUBDIA, Bangladesh — Anyone who doubts climate change should come to this lovely low-lying island, lapped by gentle waves and home to about 100,000 people.
But come quickly, while it’s still here.
“My house was over there,” said Zainal Abedin, a farmer, pointing to the waves about 100 feet from the shore. “At low tide, we can still see signs of our house.”
Already much of Kutubdia has been swallowed by rising seas, leaving countless families with nothing. Nurul Haque, a farmer who lost all his land to the ocean, told me that he may have to pull his daughter, Munni Akter, 13, out of eighth grade and marry her off to an older man looking for a second or third wife, because he has few financial options left to support her.
One of the paradoxes of climate change is that the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people — who contribute almost nothing to warming the planet — end up being most harmed by it.
Bangladesh is expected to be particularly badly hit by rising oceans, because much of the country is only a few feet above sea level.
“Climate change is destroying children’s futures,” noted Justin Forsyth, the deputy executive director of Unicef. “In Bangladesh, tens of millions of children and families are at risk of losing their homes, their land and their livelihoods from rising sea levels, flooding and increased cyclone intensity.”
A similar injustice is apparent in many poor countries. “Climate change contributes to conflict,” noted Neal Keny-Guyer, the C.E.O. of Mercy Corps, the aid group. He observed that a drier climate is widely believed to have caused agricultural failures, tensions and migrations that played a role in the Syrian civil war, the Darfur genocide and the civil war in northeastern Nigeria.
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A silt island at the mouth of a major river is subsiding or eroding away, and that is proof of oceans rising and global warming.
Climate changes all the time over centuries and millennia. Every year they seem to find a submerged ancient city off some coast. Must have been caused by all the SUVs the ancient Greeks and Babylonians must have been driving.
About fifty years ago National Geographic showed some Roman ruins above sea level that showed signs of barnacles all over them. Did the seas rise to cover them in the past or did the land settle, submerging them, then rise again?
Population too high. The island is sinking under their weight.
It is called consolidation. Sediments consolidate and compact and islands sink. Happens all the time in delta regions.
Most of what passes for news is either propaganda or opinion.
NYT (Not Yielding to Truth) – 2nd Place in the 2017 First Annual Fake News Winners AKA Second Biggest Liars of the Lying Leftist Media with TWO entries in the top ten
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
Why don’t we follow Trump’s lead here on FR? Let’s limit posting headlines from these wretched Lying Leftist outlets. If this story is true and has some redeeming value, at least get the story from a reasonably reliable source, not from a known Lying Leftist operative posing as a “news” organization.
Now now...
Don’t introduce logic to the Globull Warming crowd.
Sand is shifted by the seas constantly ... it is impossible to stop sand from shifting .... wind and water ... and stupid do not mix and play well together
Nonsense! The ocean is rising worldwide, but it takes a while to level out. You’ll see. Just keep believing! Have the scientists ever lied?
Funny that nearby Rajakhali is not reporting a rising sea. Apparently the rising sea is only impacting sand/silt deposit islands?
Reminds me of Al Capp’s Upper Slobbovia, which would then tip over and become Lower Slobbovia.
River delta mud banks are not exactly permanent...jus wait till the next big globull warming induced Ganges flood and voila your mud bank may be back...plus he already has his solution...selling his 13 yo daughter to an old man...what a bunch of liberal drivel hogwash..
I think they are called barrier islands. They are formed by wave action, they are removed by wave action. The key is not to build/live on barrier islands. Some of the wealthiest folks in Florida and the Carolina’s were reminded of this during this year’s hurricanes. However, the rest of us are paying to have the barrier island beaches “re-nourished” so they can rebuild there until their houses fall into the sea during the next hurricane. Stupidity is not limited to just poor people in Shiff-hole countries.
I don’t trust what anyone named “Abedin” says.
;^)
Sixty three years go I was swimming in the Colorado River at Moab Utah! Just a few feet from shore was a small sandbar which I managed to walk out to as the water was not over three feet deep.
By that evening the sand bar had disappeared beneath the river flow. Bu today’s standards, it was caused by THE GREEN HOUSE EFFECT before there was glo-bull warming.
Oceans will not rise exclusively at one location.
HAHAHA! Great point!
Bangladesh is sh*hole, so what’s the problem?
Divers in Lake Huron discovered herding pens on the floor of the lake that were used by indigenous tribes hunting migrating cariboo.........
Commie symp Kristof ought to be aware that Bangladesh suffers from extreme flooding from monsoons *every year* as well as occasional typhoons. The only proof of climate change would be if it *never* rained there.
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