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To: slacker711 who wrote (51207)	3/1/2008 6:08:06 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Respond to of 544083

Conversely for me, the nucular device in NYC is no big deal, but losing Florida to the rising ocean is a huge inconvenience, as it would put my residence somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico. But I imagine I'll be dead of something or other long before either of them happen.

To: slacker711 who wrote (51207)	3/1/2008 7:07:29 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544083

>>Just to put my two cents into the debate and to put it into concrete terms....I worry more about a nuclear bomb going off in NYC than losing Florida to the rising ocean. I dont think anyone can really calculate the odds on either of those occuring, but I think the impact of the former on my life would be worse than the latter.<< Slacker - I'd agree, in that I don't particularly care for Florida, and I do care for NYC. On the other hand, if we do get to the point where we lose Florida due to rising seas, we'll also lose NYC and many other places. Think about all the vast, deep underground city below Manhattan and imagine it filled with seawater. Plus, by the time we reached that point rising seas wouldn't be the only problem that was manifesting itself, whereas a nuclear explosion in NYC would be an isolated incident. I think the use of "losing Florida to rising seas" as the typical example of the results of global warming, and contrasting it with a nuclear explosion in New York, tends to tilt the emotional tone of the debate in unrealistic ways. - Allen