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Report: Army Corps Must Acknowledge Global Warming
National News • April 16, 2007
The Army Corps of Engineers needs to acknowledge that the world is heating up and seas are rising to better protect the nation from flooding and hurricanes, according to a report by two ...
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| Subject | Posted By | Posted On |
|---|---|---|
| My offer? | Not Al Gore | Apr 17, 2007, 12:16 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Rising seas. | B | Apr 17, 2007, 10:38 am |
| To Al | Not Al Gore | Apr 17, 2007, 10:06 am |
| missing graves missing votes | Al Gore | Apr 17, 2007, 9:50 am |
| Rising sea levels | Ray | Apr 17, 2007, 9:37 am |
| missing graves = missing voters | Chad Balaamaba | Apr 17, 2007, 9:32 am |
| Rising seas - missing graves a myth | Not Al Gore | Apr 17, 2007, 9:28 am |
| RE: Rising seas - missing graves | Al Gore | Apr 17, 2007, 9:22 am |
| RE: RE: Rising seas. | Ratemaker | Apr 17, 2007, 9:22 am |
| References | Ray | Apr 17, 2007, 9:20 am |
| RE: Rising seas. | B | Apr 17, 2007, 9:10 am |
| Rising seas. | Mjolnir | Apr 17, 2007, 8:46 am |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Global Warming | Al Gore | Apr 17, 2007, 8:25 am |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Global Warming | Bulldogg | Apr 17, 2007, 7:25 am |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: Global Warming | Chilly | Apr 16, 2007, 3:33 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Global Warming | Bulldogg | Apr 16, 2007, 3:30 pm |
| RE: Coming out of 6th Ice Age | Chilly | Apr 16, 2007, 3:07 pm |
| Coming out of 6th Ice Age | Rick | Apr 16, 2007, 2:44 pm |
| RE: Global warming | Chad Balaamaba | Apr 16, 2007, 2:39 pm |
| building below sea level can be hard work | Chad Balaamaba | Apr 16, 2007, 2:35 pm |
| Global warming | Ray | Apr 16, 2007, 2:18 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Global Warming | The Real Proble | Apr 16, 2007, 2:13 pm |
| Global Warming's here in Texas | ACE | Apr 16, 2007, 2:13 pm |
| RE: RE: Global Warming | Chilly | Apr 16, 2007, 2:08 pm |
| RE: Global Warming | CLR | Apr 16, 2007, 2:05 pm |
| RE: Global Warming | Linda | Apr 16, 2007, 2:03 pm |
| RE: Army Corp | Chilly | Apr 16, 2007, 2:03 pm |
| Global Warming | Truth | Apr 16, 2007, 2:01 pm |
| Army Corp | Kevin Raz | Apr 16, 2007, 1:54 pm |
| The Sky is falling!!! | Chicken Little | Apr 16, 2007, 1:47 pm |
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Subject: RE: Rising seas - missing graves
They are Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea - which ironically means "the beach which is long-lasting" - in the island state of Kiribati.
Neither island was inhabited, though Tebua Tarawa was used by fishermen.
Swamped by the sea
The news is reported in the Independent on Sunday newspaper, which says predictions of the danger are coming true more quickly than anyone had expected.
The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) says other islands are at risk, both in Kiribati and in nearby Tuvalu.
It says most of the coastline of the 29 atolls of the Marshall Islands is suffering erosion.
On one, second world war graves are being washed away.