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panzerfaust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 08:02 AM Original message |
Sinking Pacific island Kiribati considers moving to a man-made alternative |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. recommend |
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ananda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. Wow. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 07:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. And yet they both have Republican Governors and Senators. Propaganda may be more powerful than the |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. try getting the anti-science types to understand... |
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Bosonic (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. That map is +60 metres above current sea level |
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trud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 09:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. problem with your map |
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Bosonic (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 09:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. It's based on digital elevation data |
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trud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 10:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It's not broadly accurate |
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Bosonic (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. It does say it only covers upto 60 degrees latitude |
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trud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. no, I do not |
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Bosonic (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. If you really believe the scale of flooding in that map is a serious possibility in your lifetime |
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trud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 04:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I do what I can |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Here is an estimate of 80 meters if all land based glaciers melt, ie; Antarctic, Greenland. |
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byronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
6. This exact occurence is detailed by Kim Stanley Robinson in 'Fourty Signs Of Rain'. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. OT, but a tremendously funny book about Kiribati |
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Devil_Fish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
14. No Problem: |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
16. Clumsy headline from the Independent |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Also, it's a chain of islands |
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