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I "have the ego" whenever and wherever I need it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
People constantly need to be relieved of their ignorance, and it is difficult to perform that service without a large ego.
Most do not require such treatment as you do, however, as they are not so resistant to sense and logic.
They realize this is not an adversarial endeavor.
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Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island
For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports
Published: 24 December 2006
Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.
As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities.
Eight years ago, as exclusively reported in The Independent on Sunday, the first uninhabited islands - in the Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati - vanished beneath the waves. The people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been evacuated as a precaution, but the land still juts above the sea. The disappearance of Lohachara, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented.
It has been officially recorded in a six-year study of the Sunderbans by researchers at Calcutta's Jadavpur University. So remote is the island that the researchers first learned of its submergence, and that of an uninhabited neighbouring island, Suparibhanga, when they saw they had vanished from satellite pictures.
Two-thirds of nearby populated island Ghoramara has also been permanently inundated. Dr Sugata Hazra, director of the university's School of Oceanographic Studies, says "it is only a matter of some years" before it is swallowed up too. Dr Hazra says there are now a dozen "vanishing islands" in India's part of the delta. The area's 400 tigers are also in danger.
Until now the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea were expected to be the first populated ones to disappear, in about eight years' time, but Lohachara has beaten them to the dubious distinction.
Human cost of global warming: Rising seas will soon make 70,000 people homeless
Refugees from the vanished Lohachara island and the disappearing Ghoramara island have fled to Sagar, but this island has already lost 7,500 acres of land to the sea. In all, a dozen islands, home to 70,000 people, are in danger of being submerged by the rising seas.
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Not entirely unprecedented.
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Ah yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicNakor
An Ice Age or so ago, no?
In any case well before the last several threatened/imagined ones.:dabs:
Just think, to be thought of in the same breath as Atlantis...
It's thrilling, utterly thrilling. :whistling
Funny you should say that, because there are a number of us on here who relieve you of your ignorance on a regular basis, without an over inflated ego, or the need to claim social and intellectual superiority.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4People constantly need to be relieved of their ignorance, and it is difficult to perform that service without a large ego.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
PS: Happy Summer Solstice everyone. :)
In my area, J2, we have a lot of bio-diesel / alternative fuel plants springing up. A lot of these plants are and will be using a steady supply of feed corn to produce the alcohol used in these fuels.
When you consider the fact that we also have some of the largest cattle feed lots in the country here, you can imagine what is already happening to the price of corn per bushel. We have seen increases up to a dollar per bushel of corn recently. That will be reflected in the cost of producing beef.
I can only wonder what that will do to supply.
I predict someone will manage to profit handily from a circumstance that bodes slightly ill for others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Everose
BTW-
I heard recently (about a month ago) that organically-grown chicken totally sucks from a health/nourishment/cholesterol/taste point-of-view.
I don't wonder why, but I do laugh about that.:)
Never mind others; perhaps you'd furnish some sort of reference to any instance where you yourself would claim to have done what you just described. :dabs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ava EstelleFunny you should say that, because there are a number of us on here who relieve you of your ignorance on a regular basis, without an over inflated ego, or the need to claim social and intellectual superiority.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
That would be a rather pointless exercise with someone who, even now, believes there are WMDs in Iraq, and that the US have brought democracy to Afghanistan. Jesus Christ himself would have trouble getting you to admit you were wrong about anything. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Spoken like a true weasel, Ava. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ava EstelleThat would be a rather pointless exercise with someone who, even now, believes there are WMDs in Iraq, and that the US have brought democracy to Afghanistan. Jesus Christ himself would have trouble getting you to admit you were wrong about anything. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4