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bvining
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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


 
Posted : March 28, 2007 8:49 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...


 
Posted : March 28, 2007 8:57 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...

They needed a cleaning anyway. <img src=

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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


 
Posted : March 28, 2007 9:46 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.

With wave action that pretty much wipes out downtown Lahaina.


 
Posted : March 28, 2007 1:51 pm
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