Newsflash: Global Warming is for real!

There are plenty of naysayers out there that try and fight the reality that mankind is destroying its environs. People like Senator James Inhofe, Big Oil and the like keep on sipping the kool-aid that makes them believe everything is A-O.K. no matter how much greenhouse gases they put in the air.

Well it seems for the first time we have lost a formerly inhabited island off the coast of India. Lohachara once had over 10,000 people. Now it is gone, forever, at least until the next ice age or if a nuclear holocaust inadvertently causes one. Don't think it will stop there either, whole island nations will be swallowed up by the rising seas.

From the UK Independent:

As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities.

Eight years ago, as exclusively reported in The Independent on Sunday, the first uninhabited islands - in the Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati - vanished beneath the waves. The people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been evacuated as a precaution, but the land still juts above the sea. The disappearance of Lohachara, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented.

The article highlights the island chain that Lohachara was once a part of. Seventy thousand people live on these islands and in a matter of years they will all be made homeless. This is not a joke people, Global Warming is for real.

And don't think that just because this is happening in India that it can't happen to communities all over the world. If you are in the majority of inhabited areas that are by the coast, watch out for rising seas near you.