How or why is this linked with global warming? It seems to me that this has nothing to do with global warming but a piece of land that is sinking into the ocean due to subsidence.

So the title of this SHOULD BE, a village adjusting to subsidence.

Do you mean that the sea level at this village is rising 10 feet a year? Surely that cannot be the case. Is there instead a contained body of water that is rising 10 feet a year? If so, I'd be interested in the name of that body of water and the sources it has for such an alarming increase at that particular latitude. As for Bangladesh, if I recall the recent history of that particular part of that continent well, it seems that it is pretty much always at or about sea level. I believe it is primarily the Delta of the Ganges and two other rivers. Monsoons, tides, and other weather cycles seem to have had their way with Bangladesh for a long, long time. So you seem to have one place on the planet where the sea level has risen 10 feet and another place where if the sea has risen 3 feet most of the land goes underwater. Does water in the ocean still, generally, seek its own level, or has that property of water been rescinded?

Perhaps this should be called "Popular Superstition" (Popsup for short).

TEN FEET per year?? In your basement, maybe. Get your leaky roof fixed.

Otherwise, you're making yourself look foolish by printing such ridiculous nonsense about the world's oceans.

Abbey Seiff has no brain and no one should ever read anything she writes.

Did the writer meant "The sea level is rising and have lost 10 ft a year of coast?".

It was this kind of drivel that made me drop my Popular Science subscription.

"Today, with water rising about 10 feet a year, it's in danger of sinking."

Abby, please reread that sentence and realize how utterly illogical it is.

" The population of Shishmaref may soon count themselves among the first wave of global-warming refugees."

I know it has been asked above, but I'll ask again; what in the name of God does subsidence have to do with global warming?

Sad, another embarrassing assertion by pooped sigh. Is 'Science' just some vague term to these guys? How about 'Sellout'?

This is part and parcel with the dominance of editors from the liberal arts. Just as a few months ago SI had a baseball cover depicting this kinda thing.

Idiots playing at Science. I shiver for the future.

Folks from New Orleans are also whining about subsidence. Blaming white folks, too: Corps of Engineers, Bush's racism, whatever. See http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/library-121/1172887... for more details on the imminent washing away of New Orleans, levee or no levee, global warming or no global warming.