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| Kirbati Island, (Image- Shutterstock) |
Currently,
whole world is facing many consequences of climate change. One of the problem
is sea-level rising due to melting of ice sheets of glacier in Greenland and pole
ward region, as a result of emission of greenhouse gases. According to
scientist, recently three islands have disappeared from the world map because
of the rising sea level. Now the most important question that should strike our
mind is that who’s actually to blame for their disappearance? The answer is
Global Warming.
Disappeared Island
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| Family leaving their land of Kirvati because of flood, (Image- NBC.news) |
As per
recent published article of the “Barents Observer Newspaper” Norway,
Perlamutrovy which was a super remote island of Arctic have completely disappeared.
“The islands of Perlamutrovy is simply gone, and nobody seems to know exactly
what has happened. On the site is now only open water. It is very important to
understand the reasons why the island has disappeared” says Aleksabder Kirilov,
director of the Russian Arktika National Park.
In October
2018, 11 acre of Hawai Island also washed away by Hurricane Walaka. In the end
of 2018, a local newspaper reported that one more uninhabited islet (very small
island) at the coast of japan got disappeared underwater.
Through all
the three island were small with no habitat but this disappearance some how warned
us that if the rise of sea level continuous, there will be a time when larger
island too would face the same risk. As a result one more problem regarding displacement
of those millions of people who live on those islands and coastal areas.
“With some
of these small island maybe it’s no big deal to the average person because they
are uninhabited but you are going to see these same processes happen on larger
island and populated ones.” explained Curt Storalazzi, a geologist at the US
geologic surveys pacific coastal and marine science centre.
Sea Level rises Faster than Prediction
According to
the recent study sea level rising at very fast rate that will lost to 1.70
Millions of land by end of this century. In 2013, United Nations released a
report projecting that without major reduction in greenhouse gases emission,
sea level could rise between 1.5 feet to 3 feet by 2100.
Land losses
to sea, will affect the food production of those countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia
that are vulnerable to sea level rising.
Name of some island that may will disappear at the end of this century:
- Kiribati
- Soloman Islands
- Palau
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Fiji
- Tuvalu
- French Polynesia
- Seychelles
- Cook Island
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