[Vision2020] Fox News: Inhabited Island Vanishes Beneath the Waves; Global Warming Blamed

[mark seman]

Could this one be far behind? - see attached pic.  But one might ask just as
well, "How in the hell could this ever happen?"

Malé (mäl´) a small island and town (1995 pop. 62,937), capital of the
Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. Part of Malé Atoll, Malé Island is the site
of a seaplane base and a ship anchorage and is a center of interisland trade
in coconuts, coir, palm mats, copra, and cowries. It is the seat of the
Maldivian people’s assembly and of the sultan’s residence. Malé
International Airport is on adjacent Hulule Island.


mark r. seman, architect
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  Inhabited Island Vanishes Beneath the Waves; Global Warming Blamed

  Sunday , December 24, 2006



  An inhabited island has been wiped off the face of the Earth due to global
warming, Britain’s The Independent site reported on Sunday.

  The remote Lohachara Island was part of the Sundarbans Island Chain near
the Bay of Bengal in India. Rising sea levels have swallowed the island
whole, according to the report. It was once home to 10,000 people.

  Lohachara’s disappearance wasn’t easy to discover. Satellites monitored it
until it finally disappeared.

  Two-thirds of a neighboring island, Ghoramara, has also been claimed by
water.

  The disappearance of Lohachara Island comes eight years after uninhabited
islands in the Pacific were overtaken. As a result of their going under, the
people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been
evacuated.

  Researchers at Calcutta’s Jadavpur University studying the phenomenon for
six years say there are now about a dozen “vanishing islands” in the region.

  Click here to read the report in The Independent.
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