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Some readers may be laboring under the misapprehension that yours truly is
insensitive to the threat posed by global warming, so it seems appropriate to
disabuse them of it. As someone with aging parents who own a valuable holiday property some 4 feet
above sea level, I can assure everyone that I am very concerned about the
possible effects of rising sea levels. So concerned in fact, that I felt the need to spend the weekend monitoring the
situation first hand, from the private jetty in the back yard. I did take time out though to catch the news, and was distressed to learn that
Tuvalu is already under water! Carefully edited shots on the leftist media show
waves crashing over the .. um .. well .. over the beach, and depict children
happily splashing in the water! The horror, the horror! The news cast assumed, not only that the earth was warming, but that the oceans
had already risen! Tuvalu was being swamped! They must have gotten their facts from the Earth Policy
Institute, who reports that
As sea level has
risen, Tuvalu has experienced lowland flooding.
Huh? Sea level rise in ocean monitoring centers in the first world have not
even been objectively measurable, but Tuvalu is already under water? Clearly some more experiments in the bath-tub are required. The fact is that the Tuvaluans have blasted away much of their coral reefs to
dynamite fish (a practice banned in most parts of the world), and have
excavated sand for building materials. This has greatly reduced the natural
protection from storms. And a rapidly increasing population has put further strains on the production
of food. Unlike the credibility of the Left, it seems that Tuvalu is
not sinking at all. Of this doesn't mean that it won't, just that it hasn't yet. This is clearly a
situation which requires careful study. I for one intend to spend more time
studying it. It can be monitored closely from the family coastal property. Maybe I could get a government grant?
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