I was serious.  Check these maps.  You can see the gradual erosion.  Richmond is on the coast at at 30-meter rise.  Florida is pretty much gone.  Other maps that show the west coast show they are in big trouble.  Some changes in living situations will definitely be coming in the not-too-distant future.

http://resumbrae.com/archive/warming/

--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA


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From: "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
> 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