Hello to all: Robert F. Kennedy,Jr. and others who care about the basics of planet survival have been warning all of us for years now concerning this. I would like to see our historical monuments and sites as well as some of the original southeastern Georgia costal lands where some of my mom's Cherokee ancestors lived and thrived thousands of years ago to be preserved for her granddaughter's grandchildren to see within a century from now. Air,water,land to grow crops on. These are the basics everyone. "Wake up" as my niece Evan would say. Jane Steele.
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>From: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Sep 25, 2007 4:30 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Jamestown likely to disappear
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>Just wondering when all this is supposed to happen? Certainly not my life
>time.
>My children's?
>My grandchildren's?
>Whenever it happens will those who are here not, more or less, adapt?
>You know, things change and things happen....like the wooly mammoth and
>dinosaurs becoming extinct.
>It's called evolution, I believe.
>DF Mills
>from the Chesapeake Bay
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:31 AM
>Subject: Re: Jamestown likely to disappear
>
>
>> That's not all that farfetched. A projected 1 meter rise will put a lot
>> of territory in VA under water and render other parts uninhabitable. The
>> eustatic sea level rise over the last 5000 years has caused scads of
>> prehistoric sites as well as the johnny-come- lately Euro and their
>> consequences sites to be either inundated or as near as dang-it inundated
>> in the Tidewater.
>>
>> Unfortunately, without a sudden rise in sea level, those sites will
>> probably end up as disarticulated artifact sets devoid of context due to
>> soil deflation from wave action.
>>
>> Lyle Browning
>>
>>
>> On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Melinda Skinner wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking forward to having beachfront property in Richmond.
>>> (Glad I live on a hill.)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Melinda C. P. Skinner
>>> Richmond, VA
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> "Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American
>>>> settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, as well as the Florida launch pad
>>>> that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are
>>>> predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America
>>>> what it is may be slowly erased." Those places also include North
>>>> Carolina's Outer Banks.
>>>>
>>>> That's the horrifying conclusion outlined in an AP story on the
>>>> probable impact of global climate change.
>>>>
>>>> You can read the entire story here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/24/rising.seas.ap/index.html
>>>>
>>>> I realize that this is a list dedicated to Virginia's history, not
>>>> its current events. But it's difficult to imagine anything that
>>>> could have as much impact on the study of history as the literal mass
>>>> disappearance of historical and archeological sites.
>>>>
>>>> Words fail me. And though I dearly hope I am wrong, I see nothing
>>>> in our nation's condition that suggests that we truly have the will
>>>> to act to stop this catastrophe.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --Jurretta Heckscher
>>
Lillian Jane Steele
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