Originally published July 30 2005
Rising ocean levels cause Hawaii to sink
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Because of global warming raising ocean levels, Hawaii might be gone in 20 years, opinions editor says.
Two cousins who I haven't seen in 25 years just showed up on my doorstep.
"You really should come over for a visit," she said.
And as we discussed all the old family skeletons -- my money-grubbing sister, our uncle who used to pimp for Conrad Hilton, the other uncle who pretended to be an Oxford scholar when he was actually the son of an Oklahoma migrant farmer, how my mother and father lived in the same house while I was growing up and didn't speak to each other for ten years, my other uncle who claimed to have had an affair with General Vandenberg during World War II -- I started dreaming about actually GOING to Hawaii.
With global warming raising the world's ocean levels at an alarming rate, 20 years from now there probably won't even be any Hawaii left to visit.
PS: Speaking of ocean levels rising as the polar ice caps melt, we have started to lose many low-lying islands already.
In the Marshall Islands, water has already begun to slowly creep up on the shoreline and the people there are already discussing alternatives such as relocating residents or building a seawall.
"The cost of constructing a sea wall for one Marshall Island atoll alone has been estimated at one hundred million US dollars."
I guess that's not going to happen.
And in Papua New Guinea, they are seriously considering changing their national anthem and adopting Johnny Cash's song "How high's the water, Mamma?"
PPS: I am truly afraid of global warming -- truly afraid.
"The pollution that circles our planet," said a speaker at a recent KPFA town hall meeting, "has the same effect as keeping the windows on our cars rolled up on a hot day, trapping all the hot air inside.
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