Five islands have disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, and six more are following suit

Swallowed by the sea.

JOSH HRALA
10 MAY 2016



http://www.sciencealert.com/climate-change-just-caused-five-islands-to-disappear-in-the-pacific/
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We’re all aware that climate change is happening across the world, but we rarely ever see it in action. Instead, most reports aim to expose future events before they happen, to hopefully give researchers enough time to prepare for or quell the incoming damage.

This is not so in the Pacific Ocean, because Australian researchers just announced that five of the Solomon Islands have disappeared thanks to rising sea levels. Yup, like something out of a televised disaster movie, five islands have been swallowed by the sea and researchers say climate change is to blame.

According to the study, which was led by researchers from the University of Queensland, climate change has caused five vegetated reef islands to completely sink underwater, while another six have had their coasts almost completely eroded. To make matters worse, one of these six islands had 10 houses swept from its shores and into the sea.

"At least 11 islands across the northern Solomon Islands have either totally disappeared over recent decades or are currently experiencing severe erosion," the team told the press. "Shoreline recession at two sites has destroyed villages that have existed since at least 1935, leading to community relocations."

The team was able to gauge how high sea levels have risen in the Solomon Islands by analysing aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014 along with historic and local reports.

Over this period, the team kept tabs on 33 islands, and found that the area is a sea-level hotspot that rises almost three times higher than the global average, the AFP reports.

On top of the sea levels rising, the study also found that the area is affected by high wave energies, which together can quickly erode and destroy coastlines.

While these rising tides have only caused a small amount of destruction so far in the local communities, it’s a clear sign that climate change could force relocation in the near future - an issue that has already been raised in other areas of the world.

Despite the findings, the team doesn’t offer a solution to the problem. Instead, they say their techniques might prove useful for watching other coastlines in the future.

Basically, they claim that what is happening right now in the Solomon Islands should stand as an ominous message about the effects of rising sea levels, especially for populations living in coastal regions. Not exactly a good sign, considering that most major cities are near the water.

The team’s report was published in Environmental Research Letters.

Is it similar to what happend to Atlantis?

Could be. I was wondering that myself.
Nothing lasts forever.
And historically & Biblically, there have been ' two great floods '
So... Why not ?

I was always intrigued by Atlantis & if it ever really existed...a lot of evidence proving it did but i still question it...it must have been an amazing civilization

I read lots of reaserch on the origins of alantis. One blew up near Greece. Another was by Florida. There were several all over the world. It was a great civilization . Originally called the Mu. Possible that they were the link between humans and aliens. I recommend a good book. It's called The Alantis blueprint.

[I was always intrigued by Atlantis & if it ever really existed...a lot of evidence proving it did but i still question it...it must have been an amazing civilization]

You said elsewhere that Americans don't believe everything they read. If you believe anything of this rubbish you perhaps should stop reading altogether.

Most of the 'evidence' is in the minds of believers in such pseudoscience. Thera (Santorini) is probably the best fit for the descriptions given by Plato, but that hardly counts as evidence for the myth.

define "great floods"... there have been thousands, if not more... but each was localized to the area they were in...

Thanks old chap, for the kingly advise, but I think it's in my nature to rebel against ideas Ill founded. You said your self that you are intrested in what??? Rubbish???

I said I don't belive everything we read. Test the reasearch. You must agree Atlantis is worth the reasearch, not rubbish. Oy I do love the Irish and the Scotts!

another to add to your list...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0528_020528_sunkencities.html

http://news.co.cr/lost-city-found-beneath-cuban-waters/15221/

Back to the age near the Atlantis drawn there won't be industrial developed level as current so can't be the same. Only those cars both other oil monsters and buildings can telling the truth story about.

There is substantial archaeological evidence that the island of Santorini was Atlantis. The geological evidence also fits the timeline.

* Volcano's go up then slowly subside and over time return or exhale

down. All volcanic island face this inevitability.


* The area that is being researched has unusual tidal flows caused by

ocean currents and the lunar, moon.


* A young volcano in the area is suspected to perhaps cause this

effect. That is a very good reason to study this effect.


* Research, the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

can't it will be marshall indeed......