Disputed Island Disappears Into Ocean(weather.com)

9 pointsby pw0ncakesvor 16 Jahren5 comments

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/indian-island-submerged_2010-03-25

5 comments

yannisvor 16 Jahren

Scientists at the School of Oceanographic Studies at the university have noted an alarming increase in the rate at which sea levels have risen over the past decade in the Bay of Bengal.

Until 2000, the sea levels rose about 3 millimeters (0.12 inches) a year, but over the last decade they have been rising about 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) annually, he said.

This is obviously bad reporting. Simple arithmetic:

       5 mm x 10 years = 50 mm (2.0 inches)

For 30 years

      3mm x 20 years + 5mm x 10 years = 110 mm (approximate 4.5 inches).

There is no way that an island would disappear because of 2.0 inches of water. Low level islands disappear due to erosion very quickly (especially volcanic ones). I actually remember reading in the SA sometime back of a case near NZ or Australia.

brcvor 16 Jahren

Spot on. There has to be other geological reasons for the island subsiding. A ripple has a wave height of 5mm.

I don't know how these stories are getting past editors and into news reporting. It's like their brain switches off whenever they see something remotely linked to 'global warming'.

sliverstormvor 16 Jahren

Mayhaps it was the world's shortest, flattest island, and has been lost, thousands of (nano) meters below the waves?

darkrabbitvor 16 Jahren

It's an estuary, good grief! It's a transient mud and sand bar not a block of granite, they do this (disappear).

teilovor 16 Jahren

Add another dubious item to the list of things that global warming supposedly causes.

I mean, come on, Weather Channel!. If you want people to take AGW seriously, then clean house on your editorial board.

Edit: Looks like this is an AP article, which, of course, explains everything. Sloppy to quote something so obviously wrong.