"Nonexistent" Environmental Problem Makes Island Nonexistent

Climate change, or as it is better known in the popular media, global warming, enjoys a position right alongside evolutionary theory that makes it unique. Almost everywhere else in the developed world both are accepted as scientific truth, yet in the US they are considered to be contentious scientific issues needing much more study before either can be confirmed. Well, strike an empirical blow for climate change. The theory predicts that temperature changes resulting from an increase in "greenhouse" gases like carbon dioxide will cause a rise in temperatures in the polar regions that will melt polar ice, causing sea levels to rise. Apparently that's exactly what is happening, as the former home of ten thousand people, the island of Lohachara in the Indian ocean, has been swallowed by the water.

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.

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.
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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.
This is not good news. People used to actually live on this island, and now they're gone because the rising sea levels have totally submerged it.

Are we going to have to waterski down Pennsylvania avenue before a president in office notices that this is a serious problem?

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