Rising Sea levels threaten Indian Islands

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West Bengalia and Sundabaran Islands is one of the first to experience Global Warming and rising sea levels
Two islands have already disappeared and others are following... BioDiverse wetlands teaming with 400 Bengal tigers, birds, reptiles, and deer is being claim by the sea. It bodes badly for Bangladesh and SriLanka and India's delta home to millions

its not coming in 50 years ...its here now

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/40946/story.htm

MOUSHUNI ISLAND, India - Sheikh Alauddin, like hundreds of other residents living on West Bengal's Moushuni island, has never heard the term "global warming". But he is living with its consequences.


"At night we just pray to God, and hope the sea does not drown us," the 60-year-old told Reuters in Poilagheri village on the sparsely-populated island, part of the Sunderbans national park and the world's largest mangrove forest.

When the tide comes in, sea water laps at the top of a mud embankment that towers 6 metres (20 feet) above Alauddin's adjacent house and is all that keeps it from being washed away.

After a 10-year study in and around the Bay of Bengal, oceanographers say the sea is rising at 3.14 millimetres a year in the Sunderbans against a global average of 2 mm, threatening low-lying areas of India and Bangladesh.

"At least 15 islands have been affected but erosion is widespread in other islands as well," said Sugato Hazra, an oceanographer at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal.

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1. How can that be?

After a 10-year study in and around the Bay of Bengal, oceanographers say the sea is rising at 3.14 millimetres a year in the Sunderbans against a global average of 2 mm...

How can this be? Sea Level is Sea Level. Yes, there are minor differences due to the rotation of the earth causing levels at the equator to be higher than elsewhere, but how the rate of rise can be different in different areas of the globe seems to defy the laws of physics...

Does anybody understand this better than me so they can explain it?

[lovuian]

2. Great point They don't understand why the water rises in

one place more than another The Earth isn't logical ...it rises at the most unexpected places and India and other nations are definitely in major trouble

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. The Earth is not a perfect sphere.

Look at the dramatic tides in the Bay of Fundy, between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. I know those drastic tides are in part an effect of geography but still, tides that large (30 to 50 FEET difference between high and low tides in some places) occur in few other places on the globe.
Here is a NASA image showing high and low tides there



The sea "bulges" on the surface of the planet due to tides. I don't think it is out of the question to suggest that this part of the Bay of Bengal has a constant bulge that is getting higher.

Maybe?

[lovuian]

4. WOw Thank you that is fascinating

from the news I have gathered over the months
is that Oceanographers are surprised that this part of Earth has sea level rising faster than expected... its levels are rising alarmingly fast... I think the models showed the marshal isles and Maldives to go first and later on sundabaran.

My gut feeling is this high level seas is due to the antartic melting at phenominal rates... the sea bulges due to the tides make sense and this coastline would produce these tides...

it looks to me like the bay of Fundy is like west bengal they are the Sea bulges for the Artic Ocean greenland melt

Thats an outstanding pic Thanks
I can't wait to see how they are going to move 400 tigers??? and where