There was a show on 60 minutes recently about the causes and effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A native American that made a living shrimping along the cost of Louisiana was one of the featured guests. He pointed out a vast amount of land that he recalled hunting as a little boy, that today he uses for red snapper fishing.
It is clear to me that very subtle changes in climate can have drastic consequences for us all. I fear that we may be much further along in the problem of climate change than anyone realizes, making reversing the causes very difficult, (eg it 1 minute before twelve). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY Regards, LelandJ On 11/26/2010 09:50 AM, John Harvey wrote: > The sky is falling (we need your tax dollars), the sky is falling (we need > your tax dollars), the sky... I think you can decipher the rest.... > > John Harvey > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Pete Theisen > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 9:36 AM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [OT] Global warming in Virginia > > Nicholas Geti wrote: >> See, Leland I don't get all my news from Fox. In fact I get daily updates > from the New York Times. Here is a good one about the oceans rising and > damaging Virginia's coast line due to global warming. > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/science/earth/26norfolk.html?_r=1&nl=today > sheadlines&emc=a2 >> Even the naysayers must admit something is going on here. > Hi Nicholas, > > Hmm, "Like many other cities, Norfolk was built on filled-in marsh. Now > that fill is settling and compacting. In addition, the city is in an > area where significant natural sinking of land is occurring. The result > is that Norfolk has experienced the highest relative increase in sea > level on the East Coast - 14.5 inches since 1930". > > So it isn't *just* the rising sea levels, but *also* the sinking land > and land fill. .18 inch per year - not even a quarter inch - over 80 > years. 80 year old homes typically need some rebuilding anyway, why not > raise them a couple of feet and regrade the lots and streets? Be good > for another 80 years if they do it right. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
