There are still some global warming naysayers who believe that it's not real. But tell that to the former residents of Lohachara island.
According to an article in the British newspaper The Independent, "Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true."
The article goes on to share the following dire prediction: "As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities."
If this doesn't make you trade in your big, fat SUV for a hybrid, what will?
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