"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