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Global warming and rising seas. #101900
03/28/07 08:49 AM 03/28/07 08:49 AM
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"U.N. climate experts projected last month that sea levels could gain by 18 to 59 cms (7.1 to 23.2 inches) by 2100."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070328/sc_nm/seas_dc

Not exactly a world ending flood........

Bill
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Re: Global warming and rising seas. [Re: bvining] #101901
03/28/07 08:57 AM 03/28/07 08:57 AM
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One in ten people in the world live in an area that would be flooded by that "small" increase in sea level. Is NOLA such a distant memory already?

Big deal? Yes. Stoppable? Probably not. Some of the best archeology sites are just off the coast...

John Williams

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Re: Global warming and rising seas. [Re: John Williams] #101902
03/28/07 09:46 AM 03/28/07 09:46 AM
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One in ten people in the world live in an area that would be flooded by that "small" increase in sea level. Is NOLA such a distant memory already?

Big deal? Yes. Stoppable? Probably not. Some of the best archeology sites are just off the coast...



They needed a cleaning anyway. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Yep, big deal, shouldn't have been though. Look at the rest of the state got hit just as hard getting back on their OWN feet!

JMO,
Clayton
Re: Global warming and rising seas. [Re: bvining] #101903
03/28/07 01:51 PM 03/28/07 01:51 PM
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"U.N. climate experts projected last month that sea levels could gain by 18 to 59 cms (7.1 to 23.2 inches) by 2100."

With wave action that pretty much wipes out downtown Lahaina.

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