Posted on 03/24/2010 11:05:25 AM PDT by cajuncow
NEW DELHI (Associated Press) -- For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone.
New Moore Island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said.
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“My best guess is, it was a sandbar that washed away.”
Bingo! Eggs Ackley. The story is based on a false premise but will be used anyway!
Bengal Island succumbs to global warming nonsense AP gets nutty over the loss of a sandbar
They play on the world mass of mostly stupids that have little understanding of anything beyond their lips as they suck down Pepsi Pepsi no coke, and look at their fingers working the TV remote controller.
I guess they won’t have to worry about their conflicting claims now. :’)
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