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Originally Posted by Mutt
I will read any opinion, the whole issue doesn't mean much to me since I don't think a couple of degrees of warming is going to be catastrophic, I don't live on an atoll two feet above sea level.
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This "news" as the thread title states is nearly 4 decades old.... and the prediction of "disappearing by 2015" is also a decade and a 1/2 old. And as much as i like you, it would seem pretty obvious that the sea levels rising 2-3 feet would not just be felt in one specific area, affecting ONLY a young, coral reef... it would be noticed all over the globe. ;)
The only reason the name of that place is even known is because they have been relocating people from there since the 1980s. And why? One obvious reason that seems to only be a small footnote in any article is because a series of storms have destroyed a lot of what little vegetation there was which speeds up erosion from subsequent storms.
So lets forget about "global warming".... simple logic time. How is this one place submerging due to "rising sea levels"... and its not happening everywhere else? There are plenty of place at or below sea level. Hell, drive around Hawaii and there are tons of places where the roads are only 1-2 feet above mean sea level... yet we're not hearing about these roads going under water or anywhere else for that matter. As I said, San Marcos square in Venice for example is basically at sea level and somehow a reef is quickly slipping under the water due to "rising sea levels" and its not happening anywhere else. That should tell you there isn't much "science" in the conversation to begin with.
Hysterical rants from alarmists, is not "science".