India loses Islands

[Dron.ru]

In March 2010, Sugata Hazra of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkatta, India, said that the island had disappeared and that sea level rise caused by climate change was a factor. He said that sea level rise, changes in monsoonal rain patterns which altered river flows, and land subsidence were all contributing to the inundation of land in the northern Bay of Bengal. Hazra said that a lot of other islands in the Indian Sundarbans region are eroding very fast. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated that 17 percent of Bangladesh will be submerged under water by 2050, if sea levels rise by 3.3 feet due to climate change.

Hazra said that due to global warming, temperatures in the Bay of Bengal area have been rising at an annual rate of 0.4 degrees Celsius and in the 2000-2009 decade, sea water level rose at a rate of 5 mm a year. India is preparing to send a study team to physically assess the situation in the region.

If the Greenland ice will melt, sea level will rise up to 7 meters. Melting of Antarctic ice rise sea level up to 64 meter.

Sea-level rise near the equator will be more than at the poles.

 

[Kinetic]

If the Greenland ice will melt, sea level will rise up to 7 meters. Melting of Antarctic ice rise sea level up to 64 meter.

Sea-level rise near the equator will be more than at the poles.

There was little problem with BD over this newly rose island. Its name was Purbasha or New Moore. Better it sank in the sea again. I think its normal, not just because of global warming.

 

[Lilo]

The Island is nothing but a sand bank formed as recently as 1970 (i think during the Bhola cyclone).

The sundarbans delta is littered with such submerged and semisubmerged sand banks and i wont be surprised if some cyclone comes and raises another sand bank above sea level.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

hey thats is common in sundarban are of west bengal..its amazing...infact there is an island in that area which is a nice tourist spot,which was created by the sand banks and every year it remains submerged for 5 to 6 months..while in the remaing months it is visited by the tourists..