actually there was a little ballyhoo in a London newspaper a couple of years ago about an island off India that was suppoesedly the first inhabited island to go under because of global warming, and a whole list of islands that were going to go under was in that article. it turned out that there was a 1990 study that had predicted that the shifting delta of the river in which this island was located was going to cause the island to go under, so that ballyhoo was short lived.
i'll see if i can look up a bit of info and relay it to you all.
--- On Sun, 5/11/08, ken barber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: anartica did not cool nearly as much as modles predicted
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 3:23 PM
> i actually read articles (plural) around 1990 that named a
> few islands that would be totally submersed. (actually made
> proposals that the island people be moved to california and
> then into other states. but being that long ago i have
> long since forgot the names, but am sure that if any had
> been submersed we'd have read it in the newspapers.
>
> and like you now, i did not believe it then. but then i am
> a cynical person especially after the ice age thing.
>
> let me tell you about that. they were predicting that our
> midwest was going to be a frozen tundra and onlt the very
> southern most land would be able to do crops, like south
> texas and florida. the most livable areas would be central
> america. they were advertising to get people on land buying
> trips to central america, of course being younger than i am
> now and a person of action, 4 of my workmates and i were
> looking into going to what was british honduras now called
> belieze to buy our retreat from the ice. (being the only
> english speaking country in central america) what stoped
> us? our guide/agent was murdered on his last trip down.
> note i did not say his last scheduled trip. that gave us
> pause to stop and think. we never tried to rescedule with
> someone else.
>
> fool me once shame on you, fool me again shame on me.
> this global warming stuff is just a tremendous scam. there
> is money to be made on it and there is political power to
> be derived from it. al gore is making more than a little
> money here. i'd not have as much a problem with it if
> people were not being hurt.
>
>
> --- On Sun, 5/11/08, Deri James
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: anartica did not cool nearly as much as
> modles predicted
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 5:42 AM
> > On Sunday 11 May 2008 00:44:45 ken barber wrote:
> > > yeah, i am not blaming you. there are islands
> that are
> > already supposed to
> > > have sunk under water and i am, afraid they are
> still
> > right there. i doubt
> > > very much that the sea levels will rise any
> measurable
> > amount in the future
> > > just like they have not yet risen. time will tell
> and
> > by then all of you
> > > will be into the next crisis whatever it is and
> will
> > not remember.
> > >
> >
> > I can't believe any islands are going to
> "sink
> > under water", maybe you've
> > misunderstood something you've read. The problem
> with
> > rising sea levels is
> > inundation during extreme weather events (storms,
> spring
> > tides, etc.).
> >
> > Certainly, here in the UK, due to population density,
> much
> > new housing has
> > been built in flood plains which have an expected
> > inundation of 1 in a 100
> > years, but, if sea levels rise, and storm severity
> > increases, the inundation
> > incidence in these areas could drop to 1 in ten years.
> > These houses would
> > then be virtually un-insurable, and have virtually no
> > commercial value.
> >
> > Having a bad storm/flooding of your home once every 10
> > years is a far cry
> > from "islands sinking", but will cause
> misery for
> > a lot of people.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Deri
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