Boa Constrictor arguments

[dr del]

Hi,

And the sea has swallowed its first country.
http://www.earth-policy.org/index.ph...s/2001/update2
Tuvalu is no more.

That was from 2001 - Tuvalu is very much still with us as we creep up on 2010, isn't evacuating, and still wants the climate change money please. And yet the line is still that climate change "could" threaten it. I wonder if the last two points might be related - Incidently the Maldives are lower.

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/31980

And Tuvalu is nearly under water. Some things just can't be argued anymore, lol.

Actually they can. Go look at the dire predictions we should have already had to face since the climate change forecasts began. And Tuvalu has been nearly underwater its entire existence - this is not a drastic shock to anyone.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/2...-james-hansen/

http://www.c3headlines.com/predictionsforecasts/

http://northamericaviews.com/index.php/article/19

http://americanelephant.wordpress.co...damental-test/


dr del

[Eventide]

I don't take much stock in what the media blows out of proportion. In science, we extrapolate, we estimate, we model. Much of what goes on through e-mails between collaborators would make the media explode. So I'm taking those "e-mails" with a grain of salt. I believe the Great Barrier Reef would agree with me.

At any rate, the sea levels rising to engulf the Everglades would not necessarily stop the pythons. This wouldn't happen overnight, after all. If the climate of the Everglades moved north as the real Everglades went underwater, the snakes would merely move north. My point regarding increasing sea levels was that the Everglades would be completely gone, including many, many species that are unable to adapt to the changes.

What's really amusing is the sheer number of invasive species in the Everglades. There are tons of them! And some of those species are wreaking much more destruction than Burms. And there are invasive species elsewhere causing other species to become extinct...but there aren't any laws against those critters (bull frogs, anyone?).