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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (13373)	6/5/2007 5:00:51 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

right...all these island nations are sinking?...NOT! Were you sleeping during geology class? Or did you even get that far in school? Have you ever heard of tectonic plate movements? It causes the land above them to rise in some instances and subside in others. I don't have the time or inclination to look it up now, but I've read that the west coast of the US is rising and the east coast is sinking (very slowly, of course). Anyway, with the measured increase of global sea level of just over an inch in the last century, that would certainly point to some other phenomenon as the cause of what these islanders are experiencing. A coral atoll, for instance, is not the most permanent type of environment in the world. And these islands exist quite near the Marianas Trench, the deepest point on earth, and an example of where crustal plate subsiding is occurring.