Vanatu
Posted on 12/12/2005 2:55:35 PM PST by Graybeard58
The assertion that the island of Vanuatu is slipping into the Pacific Ocean because of manmade global warming is interesting in two respects. U.N. officials at the 11th annual U.N. Climate Change Conference in Montreal last week said rising sea levels, more frequent storms and higher tides caused by hurricanes -- all supposedly the effects of civilization's greenhouse-gas emissions -- were forcing islanders to flee inland.
Interestingly, Vanuatu means "land eternal." The island, actually a chain of 83, has a land mass roughly the size of Connecticut. The nation's Web site describes islanders as "a peaceful, gentle race, who enjoy life's simpler pleasures in a country of unique and diverse customs and culture."
However, as with all scary screeds from global warmists, this one fails the smell test. Patrick J. Michaels, who teaches environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, points out that scientific data do not back up the claim. "The island in question has experienced no net sea level rise in the last half century, according to the combined satellite and submarine data," Mr. Michaels told Cybercast News Service. "In fact, areas to the west such as (the island of) Tuvalu show substantial declines in sea level over that period." Moreover, the United Nations itself has noted a decline in the frequency of tropical storms and hurricanes in the South Pacific in recent decades, so the premise that Vanuatu is being swamped by global warming is simply false.
But for the sake of discussion, let's say Vanuatu is disappearing into the sea. The islanders at least have enough sense to relocate to higher ground to get themselves out of harm's way. Too bad the same can't be said for the politicians of New Orleans.
BTTT
Vanuatu means "land of fraudulent toll charges"
That's not quite true. New Orleans politicians were smart enough to scurry to high ground. They just forgot to bring their voters with them. Now if Mayor Nagin had thought that an election was at stake, he would have used the buses to haul his voters around.
Other than the facts, it's all true.
TEGUA ISLAND, Vanuatu (6 Dec 2005) -- RISING seas have forced 100 people on a Pacific island to move to higher ground in what may be the first example of a village formally displaced because of modern global warming, a UN report has said.
With coconut palms on the coast already standing in water, inhabitants in the Lateu settlement on Tegua Island in Vanuatu started dismantling their wooden homes in August and moved about 548.64m inland.
"They could no longer live on the coast," Taito Nakalevu, a climate change expert at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program.
When Pam buttons up,
sea levels around the globe
rise and islanders
flee inland. But then,
when Pam unbuttons at night,
sea levels fall back . . .
"About 548.64m" = "about" 1800 ft.
I just finished Michael Crichton's "State of Fear". Long and basically a devastating put-down of the environmental whacko movement. Contains lots of actual scientific data, with a bit of "shoot-em-up" and a few lucious babes thrown in to keep the reader interested.
It also has a good analysis of the actual science behind the Vanatu lawsuits. Actually there is no scientific evidence supporting the suit.
LOL. That should do it until the whining about global cooling starts.
If F is large enough to affect sea levels, it follows that m1 and m2 are so massive as to prevent being pulled apart.
Which also might explain the behavior of my eyeballs.
> "About 548.64m" = "about" 1800 ft.
Move a house well over a quarter of a mile...but those are just grass shacks in paradise, so what the heck.
not to mention "Land of very expensive porn"
(or so I'm reliably informed....)
Quick Before It Sinks (Episode #42)
Originally aired: October 28, 1965 on CBS
Writer: Stan Burns, Mike Marmer
Director: George Cahan
Show Stars: Bob Denver (Gilligan), Jim Backus (Thurston Howell III), Tina Louise (Ginger Grant), Alan Hale Jr. (Jonas Grumby (The Skipper)), Natalie Schafer (Eunice Wentworth 'Lovey' Howell), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann Summers), Russell Johnson (Professor Roy Hinkley, Jr.)
The Professor thinks that the island is sinking, which causes the Castaways to panic. As it turns out, Gilligan has mistakenly moved the Professor's measuring stick, so the panic was a false alarm.
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