Posted on 12/27/2006 8:02:21 PM PST by grandpa jones
Ever since FNC offered up Robert Kennedy as a “special correspondent” on its much ballyhooed global warming report, Fox has become a sucker for the gaiaist apocalyptic syndrome. Yesterday’s report on Lohachara Island was an another example of junk science gone wild.
The Fox story began with this bold headline:
An inhabited island has been wiped off the face of the Earth due to global warming, Britain’s The Independent newspaper reported on Sunday.
Remote Lohachara Island was in the Indian part of the Sundarbans , a vast mangrove delta where the Ganges empties into the Bay of Bengal on the Indian-Bangladeshi border.
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.
As Aaron noted at Free Will, “Odd. You’d think the inhabitants would’ve noticed it before the satellites did. Or, they might not:
As Tim Blair notes, this “shocking news” actually took place 22 years ago.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nukegingrich.wordpress.com ...
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Wow...I think these people deserve a new word: climatards.
Yup.
Doesn't Douglas Kennedy work for FNC?
I have always wondered if there are any conservative Kennedy's out there? Okay, go ahead and laugh!
I dunno about missing islands but jackalopes are real.
They got 'em all over Park City, Utah ;-)
climatards hehehee I love it
Park City, Utah?
I heard them jackalopes are pretty good eatin'
Jackalope season is set to begin soon in Wyoming too, there should be some really good ones this year. They do well in warm temperatures. I tried to transplant some to my home here in Alaska but they couldn't take the cold. A few more years of global warming though and who knows.....?
I think those conservative Kennedys live in Park City, Utah
You can always tell by the rut marks on the tree trunks
There were two on the grassy knoll in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963 - a mama in a tree and a baby walking on his back legs like a person. I saw the pictures of them here on FR, even.
Been there and found it to be a beautiful place.
that picture is now safely stored on my hard drive. :)
I had to respond to an email from a friend about this article the other day. NOW I cannot find the research...Oh Well!
Anyway here's something I found just now:
Atanu Raha, director of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, said the islands were getting eroded by oceanic currents, not by rising sea levels.
“Erosion and accretion are natural phenomena. Across the world islands submerge and new ones emerge. This is natural,” Raha said.
You can read more at http://northcoastonline.typepad.com/
Climatards! I think you've hit on something there.
thanks for that link
"I dunno about missing islands but jackalopes are real."
I seen um maself too. They be in Wyomin all over.
I wonder why the sea level only rose there.
Still cannot find the research I did on the 24th of Dec. in response to a friends email on this article, but found my response to her (for what it's worth).
That entire area of the World is at Sea level or below
according to previous reads as much as thirty years
ago if memory serves me. I'm not concerned about the
myth that "Global Warming" is causing any problems at
all, but I am concerned about the "Global Warming
Chicken Little's" change to the term "Climate Change"
to preach their "Global Warming" spiel. "Climate
Change" is inevitable as the climate has changed over
thousands of years by natural means, and in this case
substantiated by real science, not allegedly "human
induced" means perpetrated by "Junk Science". So, we
must now be on the alert for real "Climate Change" as
opposed to mythical.
I sent you an article about how the island of
Lohachara was all of a sudden submerged in one day
according to a refugee. In the article was information
about another island that disappeared some 22 years
ago I believe. Somehow that information seems to be
inconvenient to that article you sent us along with
your question.
To answer your question...NO WE don't believe there
need be alarm over the disappearance of this island.
WE are certain more research will show many islands in
that low lying area of seafrontage are very good tales
to be told by "Global Warming Alarmists".
good response. the hype around the warming crowd takes on almost a religious fervor. I would welcome honest debate on the subject, but it doesn't fit the agenda.
Throw the living God out of the public schools, and replace Him with dead trees, and frozen water. I'd say we (the public) got ripped off by the Devil BIGTIME!
I await the world peace that will come with the arrival of the great white jackalope...a new awakinging.
You weren't supposed to notice that!
yeah, put me on that ping list, please
The BBC ran this story about a year ago, what tripe! Its more likely shifting currents that caused it. But what do I know? Global Warming is a fact. We know it exists because global climatological change happens. Thats just the nature of the planet. I ridicule the likes of algore for their bleating, because they blame my SUV for it, instead of looking to the source of warming, the friggin' sun! The sun is a star, and stars change over time, as well. Has any of these global warming boobs considered that the sun might be getting hotter?? Martian and Jovian surface temps have risen, too. How does algore square that with the evil SUVs causing the deluge that drowns Manhattan?
The twelfth iman is on his way, riding his jackalope.
If you get out your globe and rotate it till you see where we uns live up on top, you will notice that they uns are down there on the bottom and as we all know that due to the gravitational effect water will run to the bottom and that's where this here island is or er, was. Common sense.
dang! you uns iz right!
Reminds me of the Cheers episode where all the guys took Frasier on a snipe hunt.
I understand that it is also man-made activities that are contributing to the increase in solar activity.
Here in NC snipe season is in full swing, all of you bring your pillow cases.
Well, the info was there, but nobody seems to know what a delta is!.................FRegards
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=207343
22 yrs after deluge, they fear more
Mohammed Safi Shamsi
Sagar Island, Sundarban: October 30: For the past two decades, Arjun Jana has lived the life of an “environmental refugee” in Sagar island. He was forced to leave home in Lohachara island, one of the many islets on the Sundarban delta, when the surging sea waters swamped his farmland.
Now 75, Jana’s migration to Sagar brought him to safer land. But it also made him poorer for the rest of his life. “People don’t offer me any permanent job,” Jana told Newsline in his refugee shanty on Sagar island on Tuesday.
“They believe that making me work at this age is a sin. (So) our only source of income is assisting people as labourers.”
There’s no old-age allowance from the local administration for either Jana or his wife. And apart from a piece of land allotted to him years ago, and his thatched hut, the couple has nothing that they can call “ours”.
Close to Jana’s hut is another witness to the misery after the rising sea submerged the islands of Lohachara and Bedford 22 years ago. Divakar Bhandari was in his early-30s when the catastrophe occurred.
“I went to Lohachara island when I was 12 — in search of land,” Bhandari, now 55, said. “I and my wife had five bighas of land that we tilled.
“The sea had been eating away our island with every passing day. And then, one day, it engulfed everything that had remained untouched till then — our home, fields, the cattle… everything.”
In his mud-walled, thatched hut at the Gangasagar Colony, Bhandari now lives with his wife and two daughters. His sole satisfaction: the other four daughters have been married away.
Sagar Colony, Bankim Nagar, Chakhaldubi — these are now home to most of these migrants. Farmers once, they are now petty labours, devoid of any civic amenity. Even drinking water is precious in these refugee colonies.
Lack of opportunities, growing population and a consistent encroachment of the island by outsiders to set up hotels has meant further pressure.
But what’s even more worrying is the unseen threat — ingression of salt waters that is slowly breaking down a dozen islands in the region. Sagar is one of them.
“Their islands have vanished. There are many more, thousands of people, who will turn into environmental refugees in the next decade,” said R Mitra, a researcher who has studied the ecologically sensitive Sundarban islands extensively.
“Where will they all go when more islands go under water? To Sagar? To Kolkata? Nobody seems to have a solution ready,” Mitra said.
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Well, if'n ya eats 'em, it's usually in a stew.
Lotsa carrots and peas and taters...n stuff.
Some people eats da horns too. Boil 'em for 24 hrs first.
Nah man, thems iz cantalopes.
We're talkin' jackalopes
Cantalope
Jackalope
There ya go.
Once they get going they're like tribbles.
Oh they're definitely a western "thing"
I live in Merryland now and can honestly say I have never seen a jackalope east of the Mississippi.
PLease define what you mean by "riding" ;-)
This isn't exactly a debate but I think you'll enjoy it.
Takes about 10 min of your time
Sorry...but it's still worth it.
PERIOD!!!
I done been to Park City, Utah and didn't see a single Jackalope. Saw a Mormon or two, though.
Hey Grandpa Jones, I miss yore pickin', stompin' and singin' since you done been reported to be expired. Or fizzled, as the case may be.
It's good to be missed. Ever since I expired, I started blogging.
Then you missed all the restaurants and sporting goods stores on Main St.
Check 'em out next time yer back.
If you can catch one.
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