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Sea-level Rise a Problem? Global Warming to the Rescue!

by E. Calvin Beisner

November 21, 2017

Part of the Bangladeshi coast of the Bay of Bengal, showing chars—islands formed by deposit of silt from Himalayan glacier melt. (Source: Google Maps, data from SIO, NOAA, U.?S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO, Landsat/Copernicus, TerraMetrics.)

Oh, this is rich with irony!

The Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh, reports:

Every year Himalayan rivers carry an estimated one billion tones of silts and deposit them in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Bangladesh, forming islands in the shallow waters

Dozens of new islands have emerged from the waters around Bangladesh over the last decade, providing a possible solution to the existential threat that rising sea levels pose to the low-lying coastal nation.

The government said Monday that 29 islands with a combined area of 125,370 acres (507 square kilometres) had emerged from the Bay of Bengal since 2007.

Every year Himalayan rivers carry an estimated one billion tones of silts and deposit them in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Bangladesh, forming islands in the shallow waters.

Many of these islands, known as chars in Bangladesh, are already inhabited and experts told AFP they could mitigate the threat posed by global warming.

“Every year Bangladesh has new land emerging and new land being devoured by rivers and sea,” said Maminul Haque Sarker, head of the Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services.

Now, the runoff from the Himalayans comes largely from the melt of glaciers, which climate alarmists say global warming has accelerated. The implication: global warming is, at least in this location, helping to solve problems that could be caused by alleged (but not really) accelerated sea-level rise allegedly caused by—global warming!

Dated: November 21, 2017

Tagged With: Bangladesh, Sea-Level Rise
Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment

About E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. Beisner is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance; former Associate Professor of Historical Theology & Social Ethics, at Knox Theological Seminary, and of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Covenant College; and author of “Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate” and “Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future.”

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Cornwall Alliance will be a host of the Association of Classical Christian Schools’ (ACCS) annual Repairing the Ruins conference in Dallas, TX, and will have an exhibit booth.

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