Story of the Day:
A Victory in the War on Earth
When will these global warming alarmists stop?
From today's Independent UK:
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.
Deck the halls. Another triumph for the Bush administration.
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.
Surrender monkeys! Defeatists!
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.
Science mongers! Factualists!
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.
Environmental pornographers! Population exhibitionists!
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.
Who are we to think that our mortal actions could impact a planet? I've decided to start a new organization to combat this disinformation campaign. It's called PUN:
I hope you'll join me in my crusade against these global warming alarmists or GWAs (pronounced gw-az). The perceived state of our planet depends on it.
Disappearing World: Global Warming Claims Tropical Island
By Geoffrey Lean
Independent UK
A Victory in the War on Earth
Posted by: MediaBloodhound | December 25, 2006 at 04:19 PM