Posted on 04/10/2024 6:58:55 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2
An amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion. Of course, the findings blow holes in the poster scare run by alarmists suggesting that rising sea levels caused by humans using hydrocarbons will condemn many islands to disappear shortly beneath rising sea levels.
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Seems we have something in common. I liked it there too, the wife, not so much. I guess she was never cut out to be a military wife as we divorced within a few years after returning to the states. But if I had the chance to go back, I would, in a heartbeat.
If you have a military pension it is a great place. Because it has a VA hospital with no waiting times and a commissary
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