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Disputed Isle Disappears

By LIFS April 5, 2010 at 5:54 AM
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Global warming may have resolved a 30-year conflict between India and Bangladesh over an uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal. The rising sea has swallowed up the 3 sq mile island in the Sunderbans, known as New Moore in India and South Talpatti in Bangla Desh. The island has never been inhabited, but India hoisted its flag on the island in 1981 to underscore its territorial claim.

 
Oceanographer Sugata Hazra told the media, “What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming.”

Sea levels in the region have been rising 0.2 inches annually and endanger at least 10 other islands in the area.

 

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Frank Griffin May 1, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Did the water rise or did the island sink? Man Made Global warming is a hoax BTW
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