Posted on 02/14/2005 10:00:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Gee, this couldn't have anything to do with their continental plate moving and maybe sinking and pushing the mountain that is their islands down with it?
Puhleese--spare me. These atols were pushed up above sealevel, and at some time they could well be overtaken again--this could even have happened 100,000 years ago. Geological time marches on, and our puny greenhouse effects are about like the proverbial gnat crawling up the elephant's anatomy with carnal knowledge on it's mind.
vaudine
Liberal idiots posing as scientists will never stop defrauding people till they're kicked out of their profession.
I personally am blaming Bush, Cheney and Halliburton (aka Global Warming, Inc.) for the breakup of my beloved supercontinent, Pangea.
It's all Bush's fault.
"Stop Plate Tectonics!"
The idiot Reuters reporter doesn't seem to know that sinking land and rising water levels are two different things.
I think they'll do okay............
In 2000, Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name ".tv" for $50 million
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tv.html
Tuvalu Population: 10,838 (July 2000 est.)
Tuvalu Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Cost to global economies of "preventing" global warming (e.g., reducing global average temperature in 2100 by 0.5 degree): $10 Trillion?
Cost per Tuvalu citizen: $100 Billion
Methinks it would be cheaper to pay each Tuvaluvian a mere $1 Billion and let them each buy their own Malibu beach house and Hummer H1.
lol.. any semblance of an agenda in content delivered is purely coincidental. ;-)
It's a slow night. Which is fine too.
Tiny Tuvalu cashes in on '.tv' domainsBy Gaëlle Vacher ZDNet News April 10, 2000, 5:00 PM PT
Tuvalu, a tiny South Pacific nation measuring 26 square kilometers, has sold the use of its domain name -- .tv -- to Idealab! in a deal that promises to garner Tuvalu more than three times its national budget.
Under the terms of the agreement, the archipelago will receive $50 million over the next dozen years; the contract will be renegotiated in 2012.
The Tuvalu islands have already garnered $15 million dollars from the deal, enough to transform the existence of a country where the annual budget tops out at $14 million per year.
The per-capita revenue of the 10,600 residents is on its way to becoming one of the highest on the planet, up from an average of $400.
In 1998, Tuvalu closed a deal with Canada's TV Corp., but that agreement fell through. The current deal is with Idealab!, a startup incubator based in Pasadena, Calif. One of its portfolio companies, dubbed DotTV, will auction off URLs ending in ".tv."
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-519841.html?legacy=zdnn
Bush is sinking Atlanta???
OH MY GOD!!!! WERE ALL GOING TO DIE AND ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!
Kyoto won't save them. However it DOES sound like a great spot for the new UN building
Please. Talk about where to beign finding problems with a story. sheesh
"It's that time of year again when my tiny island nation gets hit once again by strong winds and high tides," said Lalua.
Yep. SEND US MORE MONEY, that will stop the strong winds and high tides that we have EVERY YEAR!
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