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Where did Lohachara island go?

Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island

For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas.

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.

And whats this?

U.S. wants polar bears listed as “endangered”: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush’s administration is proposing to list the polar bear as an endangered species because of warming temperatures in the animal’s habitat, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Oh my. This might mean that Al Gore was…right?


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