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Re: Hard to argue with wet feet
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2006 Aug 15, 21:43 -0500
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From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2006 Aug 15, 21:43 -0500
Frank seems to be proposing an alternative explanantion for the damp extremities of the unfortunate residents of Tegua Island. Rather than being the victims of global warning, it seems they
are:
"victims of their grandparents' own poor choice of living location."
For all I know this may be correct, but where is Frank's evidence for this assertion?
The site he provides seems to support the article I quoted from, saying:
"The one metre high coral reef, the previous line of defence against high tides and waves, was being increasingly breeched."
Regardless of what the precise story is of these ni-Vanuatu and their grandfathers, many coral atolls in the Pacific only just above sea level are at great risk from rises in the level of the oceans.
Saying 'stuff happens' is always more comforting when ones' own toes are safely dry ...
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