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Re: Hard to argue with wet feet
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Aug 15, 17:47 -0500
[First, sorry for being off the topic of navigation]
Peter, you wrote in the subject that it's "hard to argue with wet feet". But
you didn't see wet feet. You saw an article, which appears to be quoting
another article, which was itself based on a press release from a small UN
agency. I think it is fair to say that one can argue with a press release! <g>
This should take you to the original press release:
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=459&ArticleID=5066&l=en
You quoted:
"Rising sea levels have forced the relocation of an entire village in
Vanuatu. More than 100 residents of Tegua Island had to abandon their settlement
for higher ground after major flooding made their village uninhabitable. This
has been described as the first case in the world of the formal displacement
of an entire human population because of global warming."
This was one very small village which was sitting on an eroding beachhead.
These folks were not victims of rising sea levels. Rather, they were victims of
their grandparents' own poor choice of living location. We know how fast sea
level is rising. It has been rising at a steady, slow rate for at least 150
years, and there has been no recent acceleration. Nothing has happened to
the sea level at Tegua in this decade that has not happened each and every
decade for at least as long as this island has been known to the wider world. It
is absurd to suggest, as many environmental groups have, that these people
are "refugees" from rising sea level. But the small UN agency with its
well-funded bureaucracy which has been tasked to save these people from the 'horrific
peril' of sea level rise must justify its existence, and they also must
justify the money they have spent, which as it turns out comes from the country
with the largest reservoir of liberal guilt these days --Canada (the Canadian
government funded this village move). That said, it is still nice what they
did for those villagers. They built them new houses in a more protected
setting, safe from storms and tsunamis and with more reliable sources of fresh
water. Western phobias and feelings of guilt over global warming are probably the
best thing that has happened to these miniscule island nations in a century.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Aug 15, 17:47 -0500
[First, sorry for being off the topic of navigation]
Peter, you wrote in the subject that it's "hard to argue with wet feet". But
you didn't see wet feet. You saw an article, which appears to be quoting
another article, which was itself based on a press release from a small UN
agency. I think it is fair to say that one can argue with a press release! <g>
This should take you to the original press release:
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=459&ArticleID=5066&l=en
You quoted:
"Rising sea levels have forced the relocation of an entire village in
Vanuatu. More than 100 residents of Tegua Island had to abandon their settlement
for higher ground after major flooding made their village uninhabitable. This
has been described as the first case in the world of the formal displacement
of an entire human population because of global warming."
This was one very small village which was sitting on an eroding beachhead.
These folks were not victims of rising sea levels. Rather, they were victims of
their grandparents' own poor choice of living location. We know how fast sea
level is rising. It has been rising at a steady, slow rate for at least 150
years, and there has been no recent acceleration. Nothing has happened to
the sea level at Tegua in this decade that has not happened each and every
decade for at least as long as this island has been known to the wider world. It
is absurd to suggest, as many environmental groups have, that these people
are "refugees" from rising sea level. But the small UN agency with its
well-funded bureaucracy which has been tasked to save these people from the 'horrific
peril' of sea level rise must justify its existence, and they also must
justify the money they have spent, which as it turns out comes from the country
with the largest reservoir of liberal guilt these days --Canada (the Canadian
government funded this village move). That said, it is still nice what they
did for those villagers. They built them new houses in a more protected
setting, safe from storms and tsunamis and with more reliable sources of fresh
water. Western phobias and feelings of guilt over global warming are probably the
best thing that has happened to these miniscule island nations in a century.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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