PLEASE!  Let's not start a discussion of this kind of conjecture on a 
genealogy and history list.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jurretta Heckscher" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:32 AM
Subject: [VA-HIST] Jamestown likely to disappear


> "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
>