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Re: Hard to argue with wet feet
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Aug 15, 17:58 -0500
Red, you wrote:
"Considering the "Continental shelves" are evidence that sea level was once
way way below where it is today..."
Yes, sea level was 100 meters lower 12,000 years ago, but the continental
shelves are NOT evidence of that lower sea level. They would exist regardless
of sea level history.
And you wrote:
"Tegua Island is nowhere near the first to experience this problem. Yes, sea
level is rising. So? Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down, and as
usual, "---- happens". "
I agree with you that Tegua Island is not experiencing anything unusual. Sea
level rise is not a localized phenomenon --it is necessarily global. But...
if sea level rise does accelerate, it will be an extraordinarily expensive
problem. Moving tiny Pacific island villages will not be difficult. Building
sea walls around the world's numerous great cities and countless coastal towns
would cost a fortune.
-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, 17:58 -0500
Red, you wrote:
"Considering the "Continental shelves" are evidence that sea level was once
way way below where it is today..."
Yes, sea level was 100 meters lower 12,000 years ago, but the continental
shelves are NOT evidence of that lower sea level. They would exist regardless
of sea level history.
And you wrote:
"Tegua Island is nowhere near the first to experience this problem. Yes, sea
level is rising. So? Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down, and as
usual, "---- happens". "
I agree with you that Tegua Island is not experiencing anything unusual. Sea
level rise is not a localized phenomenon --it is necessarily global. But...
if sea level rise does accelerate, it will be an extraordinarily expensive
problem. Moving tiny Pacific island villages will not be difficult. Building
sea walls around the world's numerous great cities and countless coastal towns
would cost a fortune.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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