Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea

RawJoe writes "India and Bangladesh have argued for almost 30 years over control of a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have ended the argument for them: the island's gone. From the article: 'New Moore Island, in the Sunderbans, has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said. "What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming," said Hazra.'"

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Reminds me of kids.

[Merls the Sneaky]

If you can't play nice with your toys and share, mom will take them off you.

Re:Reminds me of kids.

[girlintraining]

If you can't play nice with your toys and share, mom will take them off you.

"Buy land. They've stopped making it." -- Mark Twain.

Addendum: They're deleting it now too.

Re:Reminds me of kids.

[erikdotla]

You gave me a great visual which got completely out of control in my head:

Imagine India read your message and thought, "Hey, if we just GO there and build an artificial island, we'd clearly be reamed by the international community... but if we LAUNCHED enormous granite boulders from India into the sea as part of, say, a scientific experiment, and they happened to land on that island and were big enough, we'd have sovereignty again!"

Then of course, Bangladeshi spies discover the plan and formulate a boulder launching initiative of their own.

There's a great boulder arms race, a frantic push to move boulders to the coast, boulders destroyed before they can be loaded by opposition spies, boulder transport sabotage, and when they finally reach the coast and the enormous catapults specifically built by whichever local contractor said they could get them done in time are deployed, the great boulder launching war begins, each launching boulders "harmlessly" as part of scientific experiments toward the same island at the same time, using catapults prone to poor accuracy due to the late contractor bidding and the fact that they were built in India and Bangladesh.

I can see the headline now:
Mar 29, 2014: RARE MID-AIR BOULDER COLLISION RAISING TENSIONS
Indian statesman quoted as saying "This is the fourth incident of Bangladeshi's clearly ruthlessly expansionist government interfering with our harmless scientific experiments through high-tech mid-air boulder tracking technology they have secretly been developing with neighboring terrorist states for years."

Re:Reminds me of kids.

[Keick]

Sounds like it would make a great game too... Maybe we could call it Boulder Dash?

Just one more reason why Global Warming rocks!

[XxtraLarGe]

I say this year we nominate Global Warming for the Nobel Peace Prize for providing a peaceful solution to this heated dispute between Bangladesh and India.

Re:Just one more reason why Global Warming rocks!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, you're right, the Nobel committee has handed out two Nobel Prizes for NOT being George Bush .

That guy must suck. A lot.

Fascinating

[digitalhermit]

New Moore Island, eh?

So the new name is now No More Island, right?

Re:Fascinating

[Monkeedude1212]

Since its no longer an island, but more likely to become a Coral Reef just off the surface, they'll probably call it Nothing Atoll.

Re:Fascinating

[mindcorrosive]

More like Nuthin' Atol (hat tip to Guybrush Threepwood)

Hey, wait a minute

[HangingChad]

I thought global warming was a myth? Darth Cheney said so.

Re:Hey, wait a minute

[Dragonslicer]

Weather |= Climate

Weather is now weather or climate? Well that should make the debate easier.

Re:Local Sea Level Rise???

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you seen the moon recently? No? That's because it parked over the Bay of Bengal whislt it went into India for a quick curry, and someone clamped it for not obeying the laws of motion. The clamping company won't release the moon until the fine is paid, but the moon has no money to pay for its own release. So high tide is permanently over the Bay of Bengal now.

"Never let scientific evidence..."

[Anonymous Coward]

"...stand in the way of a good ad hominem. HAHA! Al Gore's fat!"
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go listen to Rush while I jerk off to a picture of Ann Coulter.

Re:"Never let scientific evidence..."

[dbet]

"...stand in the way of a good ad hominem. HAHA! Al Gore's fat!"

Hey! That's not an ad hominem attack! Observe:

insult - Al Gore is fat.
ad hominem - Al Gore is wrong because he's fat.

If it is barely under water- call it Fiji.

[gblackwo]

If the water is still less than say 3 feet deep, crossbreed some sheep with dolphins and start farming leaping mutton!

Re:HEY now.

[MyLongNickName]

If you are going AFK to use Typing Tutor, we may have discovered your problem....

You pussy kids today

[elrous0]

You kids today think you have it so tough because all you can come up with in your "WE ALL GONNA DIE!" scenario is that you might have to abandon a few coastal cities and loose a few fucking islands?!?!? Let me tell you something, ladies--back in my day, we had REAL fears, like nuclear winter. We had roving packs of post-nuclear-holocaust marauders ready to cut our heads off just to steal a lousy tank of gasoline and some shotgun shells in OUR fucking doomsday scenarios! Has a little rising seawater ever caused your hair and teeth to fall out? Huh? Has a little coastal flooding ever caused packs of cannibals to roam the lands looking to rape your wife and have you for dinner? I don't think so! Ever had a supercomputer start an apocalyptic war with some slowly melting ice caps? Not likely!

Grow up and get some real irrational fears, you pansies.

Re:Dispute over sandbar resolved

[Bigjeff5]

Yes, but obviously that sandbar had been there for millions of years since the 70's and we destroyed it with our man-made global warming.

Where was cap and trade when we needed it most?