An Island’s Disappearing Act

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A map showing the disputed island in the Bay of Bengal will need updating: The point of land has disappeared beneath the waves.

A 30-year territorial dispute between India and Bangladesh was resolved this week when a tiny uninhabited island, known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis, up and disappeared (Ta-da!) due to rising seas.

Many attribute the loss of the island to climate change. As Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta, pointed out: “What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking has been resolved by global warming.” —JCL

Al-Jazeera English:

A tiny island claimed for nearly 30 years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say.

The uninhabited territory south of the Hariabhanga river was known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis.

Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, the School of Oceanographic Studies in Calcutta said.

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By tom, April 20, 2010 at 10:25 pm Link to this comment
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Be careful. This story is probably a plant by the deniers. This was never a real island. The article says it was 6 ft above sea level, which is less than the annual tidal variance! Other sites say it only appeared after a cyclone 40 years ago.

Run with this and they’ll be egg on your face. I know the BBC and others are trumpeting it, but that is more a reflection on their poor journalism. I say again, be careful of false stories.

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By samosamo, March 27, 2010 at 2:51 pm Link to this comment

““Officials estimate 18 per cent of Bangladesh’s coastal area will
be underwater and 20 million people will be displaced if sea
levels rise one metre by 2050 as projected by some climate
models.”“
*************

According to Richard Alley’s book ‘The 2-Mile Time Machine’
that there is about a 600 foot difference in the sea levels in an
ice age from when water is stored on land as ice during the
‘glacial’ period of the ice age to when the ‘interglacial’ period
melts all that ice, or most of it and I guess if human meddling is
injected into the mix, it could cover more islands and land even
faster.

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