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
>