Maldives loses 42 islands as tsunami toll hits 117 (Global Warming Alert)

Yahoo News ^ | 12/30/2004

[JudyinCanada]

"We were not in any way prepared to deal with this disaster."

What can one possibly do on a low-lying island when the ocean decides to wipe it out? Other than move before it happens?

[shubi]

Oh. It was a secure Naval base the last time I was there.

[shubi]

It takes one to call one and I won't be leaving soon.

(Unless over sensitive creeps get me banned.)

You guys have to start thinking out of the box. Why do we need to spend billions on a Quixotic mission to help people that don't like us.

You can't buy friendship. Well maybe your friendship can be bought, I don't know...

[shubi]

The sad fact is no one is prepared to deal with this.

We (U.S.) will be blamed when it falls apart.

[shubi]

I have to go play tennis now.

You might check out my page and find I am older than you, am a Nam combat vet Navy officer and am a lot smarter ;)

Don't get lonely without me.

[Styria]

The Maldives are a Muslim dictatorship. They'll accept help but not Bibles.

[theFIRMbss]

>You might check out my page and find I am older than you, am a Nam combat vet Navy officer and am a lot smarter ;)

You didn't bother
to get your facts straight when you
replied to my post.

Freepers who last here
don't waste other Freepers' time
with random chatter.

[RS]

"You might check out my page and find I am older than you, am a Nam combat vet Navy officer and am a lot smarter ;)"

Damn... I didn't know Kerry was a Freeper ....

[Bellows]

OTOH - recent reports have noted that increases in atmospheric CO2 and warmer waters have accelerated the growth of coral.

Actually it's more complicated than that, but the news is more positive than previously thought.

Coral symbiotically depends on algae, and algae is particularly sensitive to temperature changes. There has been considerable concern about coral dying off as a result of temperature increases affecting the algae. However recent studies have shown that with temperature changes algaes are replaced by other algaes that are adapted to the different temperatures. As a result, the risk to coral caused by temperature changes is not as it was previously feared to be. The upshot of this is that although Manhattan may end up underwater when the polar ice caps melt, the diving will probably be really good. :-) Link to article on the subject.

[shubi]

Then why did you post this?

[Veto!]

There are plenty of low-lying islands in the world and all in danger of submerging, which has been true since before environmentalism was "invented."

I've flown over the South China Sea, home of lots of little golf-course size islands that quite obviously were not permanent. In the past, natives piled into their canoes and moved on to other islands, and thus the Pacific was populated. No one should expect such delicate blips on the geological screen to last forever.

[F16Fighter]

"We should not help them until they surrender to us."

Pretty damn funny if you ask me.

"Why do we need to spend billions on a Quixotic mission to help people that don't like us."

Good question, but some people after having watched replays of the tsunami 24/7 are in that over-sensitive kumbaya phase at the moment.

In the meantime, African Christians are STILL being macheted to death in the Sudan and Nigeria, while munching on roasted catapillar in their burned out huts, and NO ONE is lifting a finger because CNN isn't running IT 24/7.

[shubi]

You know that Aceh Bandr or whatever it was called seems to be totally wiped out. It was the center of anti-Christian operations.

[DustyMoment]

You make some great points and I agree with everyone of them. I've also flown over and fair percentage of the S. China Sea and had forgotten about some of those postage stamp-sized islands.

God and Mother Nature simply didn't intend for us to occupy every square foot of available earth. I'm sorry that some island dwellers will lose their homes to the sea - but it isn't the fault of SUVs or greenhouse gasses - it's part of nature's plan.

[jpsb]

Hmmmm, I wonder what the Navy is building there.

[searchandrecovery]

Freepers who last here don't waste other Freepers' time with random chatter.

You MUST be kidding. LOL! Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

[F16Fighter]

"Aceh Bandr or whatever it was called seems to be totally wiped out. It was the center of anti-Christian operations."

That's one I wish we could "blame" on W...

Hmm...Any word yet on whether the do-gooders want to rebuild the island and top it with a big ol' Mosque like a cherry on the cake?

[Da Bilge Troll]

The tragedy struck the atoll nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims which is already facing the prospect of extinction from sea level rise caused by global warming. Gayoom had warned that a one-meter (three foot four inch) rise in sea levels could submerge his country.

One meter? One meter??? Just guessing here, but I doubt there is enough ice on the entire planet to raise the level of the oceans worldwide by that much! How ridiculous!

[shubi]

If aid does not arrive in the next few days, most of the people will be dead.

We have a fleet steaming toward them, but it may not get there in time. So do the Australians. They keep getting hit by aftershocks, too. It sounds like hell on Earth.

[Southack]

"What can one possibly do on a low-lying island when the ocean decides to wipe it out? Other than move before it happens?"

Galveston Island, Texas built an 8 foot tall sea wall to avoid a repeat of its 1900 Hurricane storm surge damage.