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Wow...I think these people deserve a new word: climatards.
Yup.
Doesn't Douglas Kennedy work for FNC?
I have always wondered if there are any conservative Kennedy's out there? Okay, go ahead and laugh!
I dunno about missing islands but jackalopes are real.
They got 'em all over Park City, Utah ;-)
I had to respond to an email from a friend about this article the other day. NOW I cannot find the research...Oh Well!
Anyway here's something I found just now:
Atanu Raha, director of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, said the islands were getting eroded by oceanic currents, not by rising sea levels.
“Erosion and accretion are natural phenomena. Across the world islands submerge and new ones emerge. This is natural,” Raha said.
You can read more at http://northcoastonline.typepad.com/
I wonder why the sea level only rose there.
Throw the living God out of the public schools, and replace Him with dead trees, and frozen water. I'd say we (the public) got ripped off by the Devil BIGTIME!
The BBC ran this story about a year ago, what tripe! Its more likely shifting currents that caused it. But what do I know? Global Warming is a fact. We know it exists because global climatological change happens. Thats just the nature of the planet. I ridicule the likes of algore for their bleating, because they blame my SUV for it, instead of looking to the source of warming, the friggin' sun! The sun is a star, and stars change over time, as well. Has any of these global warming boobs considered that the sun might be getting hotter?? Martian and Jovian surface temps have risen, too. How does algore square that with the evil SUVs causing the deluge that drowns Manhattan?
The twelfth iman is on his way, riding his jackalope.
Reminds me of the Cheers episode where all the guys took Frasier on a snipe hunt.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=207343
22 yrs after deluge, they fear more
Mohammed Safi Shamsi
Sagar Island, Sundarban: October 30: For the past two decades, Arjun Jana has lived the life of an “environmental refugee” in Sagar island. He was forced to leave home in Lohachara island, one of the many islets on the Sundarban delta, when the surging sea waters swamped his farmland.
Now 75, Jana’s migration to Sagar brought him to safer land. But it also made him poorer for the rest of his life. “People don’t offer me any permanent job,” Jana told Newsline in his refugee shanty on Sagar island on Tuesday.
“They believe that making me work at this age is a sin. (So) our only source of income is assisting people as labourers.”
There’s no old-age allowance from the local administration for either Jana or his wife. And apart from a piece of land allotted to him years ago, and his thatched hut, the couple has nothing that they can call “ours”.
Close to Jana’s hut is another witness to the misery after the rising sea submerged the islands of Lohachara and Bedford 22 years ago. Divakar Bhandari was in his early-30s when the catastrophe occurred.
“I went to Lohachara island when I was 12 — in search of land,” Bhandari, now 55, said. “I and my wife had five bighas of land that we tilled.
“The sea had been eating away our island with every passing day. And then, one day, it engulfed everything that had remained untouched till then — our home, fields, the cattle… everything.”
In his mud-walled, thatched hut at the Gangasagar Colony, Bhandari now lives with his wife and two daughters. His sole satisfaction: the other four daughters have been married away.
Sagar Colony, Bankim Nagar, Chakhaldubi — these are now home to most of these migrants. Farmers once, they are now petty labours, devoid of any civic amenity. Even drinking water is precious in these refugee colonies.
Lack of opportunities, growing population and a consistent encroachment of the island by outsiders to set up hotels has meant further pressure.
But what’s even more worrying is the unseen threat — ingression of salt waters that is slowly breaking down a dozen islands in the region. Sagar is one of them.
“Their islands have vanished. There are many more, thousands of people, who will turn into environmental refugees in the next decade,” said R Mitra, a researcher who has studied the ecologically sensitive Sundarban islands extensively.
“Where will they all go when more islands go under water? To Sagar? To Kolkata? Nobody seems to have a solution ready,” Mitra said.
PERIOD!!!