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Originally posted by The Truth Hurts
I got $5 on nothing happening.
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Send it to Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Cook Island, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Palau, and all these other South Pacific nations that geography has made the 'canary in the mineshaft'.
http://www.tuvaluislands.com/news/ar...2001-07-20.htm
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/levels.htm
People are already losing their homes. Sea water is bubbling up through the ground. Within 50 years some (previously sovereign) countries will be entirely underwater, with their population having to be migrated/absorbed by neighbors.
This is happening now. Not some wacky liberal scientists doomsday theory.
The rise in sea level is not only due to polar ice melting
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030303/030303-9.html
but primarily because water expands as it gets warmer.