Re: Re: Re: :"We used 10 times as much energy in the20thcentury as in the 1,000

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Brad De Long wrote:

> >
> >     During WW II in the war in the Pacific, one of the most horrendous battles
> >was fought over the island of Tarawa.  Death in great numbers came to both
> >sides.  Tarawa is now beneath the Pacific ocean, a casualty of global warming.
> >
> >
> >Gene Coyle
>
> 30,000 people live on Tarawa. The expected high today is 86 degrees.
> The high point on Tarawa is 260 feet above sea level.
>
> Where do people pick up such misinformation?
>
> Brad DeLong

Well, I read in a book that "In 1999, two islands in the Kiribati Archipelago in
the South Pacific were the first to be submerged by rising sea levels due to global
warming, and others in the area were in danger."  The source given was a story in
The Globe and Mail, June 14, 1999 titled "Global Warming sinks islands."  I had
read somewhere else that Tarawa had gone under the waves.  I made the careless link
to connect the two.

    It turns out that an islet in the middle of the Tarawa lagoon, Bikeman, has
disappeared, but perhaps more due to a change in current due to construction of a
causeway between two other islands nearby.  Another islet near a neighboring island
has gone, and another near Tarawa is close to gone.

Gene Coyle