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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23255)	11/12/2008 3:07:54 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Tsunami comes once in many years. The sea rises a few meters (for the Maldives) and then goes back down. A 1 meter sea level rise (about 1 std dev on the high side of IPCC projections, and close to what some other studies think is more likely to be the mean for the next 100 years) will get rid of most of the Maldives. The guy is not an idiot to be concerned. Still, I'd look at bulking up the islands, rather than yapping about moving. If you look at maps of the seafloor, it should be clear that mountain tops which either break the surface or are just below the surface, are kind of rare. Further if you look at the enormous mass that exists from the sea surface all the way down to the floor (often 3000-5000 meters) you realise just how valuable such bulks are. To talk about walking away from such assets because you need to tack on a couple of meters is wimpish IMHO. With all the reasonable sea level rise projections, I think they could grow most the bulk using coral, which would also suck CO2 out of the atmosphere. All they need is about 1cm/year of compacted coral rubble. That strikes me as very doable with a little coral farming. Meanwhile, the tourists pay to swim among all the coral gardens. Nice little business. I'd very much like them to walk away and leave it to me. In fact, I'd trade my 40 acre farm which is 1200 ft above sea level for 40 acres of their 3 ft above sea level islands any day.