Five Solomon Islands Disappear Into The Pacific Ocean As A Result Of Climate Change (go.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Climate change strikes again. A paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters says five of the Solomon Islands have completely submerged underwater due to man-made climate change, and six more have experienced a dramatic reduction in shoreline. The Solomon Islands has a population of a little more than 500,000 people, many of whom have been adversely affected by rising sea levels in recent years. NASA scientist James Hansen estimated that seas could rise by seven meters within the next century. In 2014, Losing Ground issued a report that shows how large areas of the Louisiana coastline are being lost to rising sea levels. A 2011 study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey determined that the state's wetlands were being lost at a rate of "a football field per hour." Michael Edison Hayden writes from ABC News, "The Solomon Islands provides a preview of how sea-level rise could affect other coastal communities in the coming years, according to the study, largely because the speed which erosion is taking place has been accelerated by a "synergistic interaction" with the waves that surround it.

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subduction, try it, its free!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh noes! AGW!

it's called subduction. while LA has land management problem not a sinking problem. as if the sea would only rise so dramatically in two specific remote (from each other) locations.

queue the standard agw noise. we have to rasie taxes to save er something....

Re:subduction, try it, its free!

[MightyMartian]

So you have some actual evidence that these islands sinking is due to subduction, right? As well as evidence that there is no sea level rise, right?

I mean, you wouldn't just be making this up because you have an infantile attitude towards life and are too much of a coward to ponder that maybe ,just maybe, the universe doesn't care about your tender little feelings.