A tiny island claimed for years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say.
The uninhabited territory south of the Hariabhanga river was known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis.
Recent satellites images show the whole island under water, says the School of Oceanographic Studies in Calcutta. Its scientists say other nearby islands could also vanish as sea levels rise.
The BBC’s Chris Morris in Delhi says there has never been a permanent settlement on the now-vanished island, which even in its heyday was never more than two metres (about six feet) above sea level…
In the past, however, the territorial dispute led to visits by Indian naval vessels and the temporary deployment of a contingent from the country’s Border Security Force.
“What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,” said Professor Sugata Hazra…
Climate deniers will not take much heed of the reality.
After all, this is all talk coming from furriners. They don’t realize that the United States is not only immune from studies of evolution – geology and geography, oceanography, climatology are equally suspect in the eyes of True Believers and Real Patriots.
Eideard 
Climate change? Pshaw, Jesus made the island sink!
Cripes. You sound like you’ve started hanging out with Morey.
Har!
Bullpoop. This has more to do with the Indian subcontinent crashing into Asia than global warming.
If this island disappeared because of rising seas, that phenomena would be noticeable in other areas, including every city with a sea port.
Hate to have to straighten you on oceanographics; but, sea levels don’t work like a water level on a construction site.
Because of a number of influences, e.g., the Earth isn’t a perfect sphere, mountains and valleys within the ocean floor, variations in Earth’s gravity – sea level is not perfectly consistent from point to point around the planet.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.shtml
Ocean heights in the Indian Ocean, China Sea, several bodies, have been calculated as higher than most other parts of the globe since the 19th Century. Well before all the reasons why – were understood.
This might be a simpler graphic:
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/maps.php
All due respect, those irregularities are irrelevant. The charts show variations of less than 3/4 “. The island had been two meters high.
The Indian Plate is sliding over the Asian Plate, hence the Himalayas. The same effect that is causing the mountains, is also causing the rest of the plate to tilt. The northern portion is rising while the southern portion is subsiding.
In recent history there had been a land bridge between India and Sri Lanka. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama%27s_Bridge It is now 3 – 30 feet below sea level.
As much as I get upset at those who poo poo honest scientific research into global warming, I also get annoyed when unrelated instances are attributed to global warming. Plate tectonics has so very little to do with climate change.
It’s frankly not worth the time to sort out enough references on the range of what constitutes oceanography. If you wish, I will.
Again, the Earth’s oceans are not a construction level. The normal differences include minimums of plus or minus 2 meters.
The almost imperceptible motion of tectonic plates over even a 40-year span cannot account for this island’s change in height relative to sea level.
There are other variables – which I think are as likely to have been taken into account by the scientists quoted in the article. I’m even willing to bet they know about plate tectonics.
Here’s the sort of graphic Eid should have used to illustrate the post:
Those curved bits aren’t waves – they’re topography.