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- BigBlueCarbon, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2somewhere somehow some storm must of pushed you around some
who knows, maybe you washed up, blown out in katrina superdome
but listen, it don't really matter to me
everybody's got to float to be free
and you dont - have - to live like a climate refugee! - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1can not decide if article is spam or just lame, besides it being just inaccurate.
- epublicus, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Kinda looks like "Six Flags over Catalina". That thingy 'round the outside is a 'coaster. Right?
- skiddles, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2You are right about it being horrible from an economic perspective.
But you see that is what the AGW crowd want. Refugees. Look at the people that the world fogot. Better tax someone endlessly and keep these people floating around the pacific to inspire guilt for being alive. - skiddles, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2Just a quick search of the Internet and I find that the elevation of of London is approx 79ft above sea level. Other comments I came across indicated that some parts of London are a little as 25ft above sea level.
So how does a 3 ft rise in the sea level over 100 years threaten London? Is the UK government so ineffective that they can not devise a dike around the most likely impacted areas and get that built in 100 years. OK there are only 92 years left. Now I see. There is just not enough time.
Besides, unless the rate at which the oceans rise changes, and it has been stable over the last century, it will more likely be 2500 before the sea rises a meter than 2100.
How do you spell alarm ism? D-A-I-L-Y-M-A-I-L - Charlotte_Web, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2Interesting idea from a sci-fi perspective.
Horrible idea from an economic perspective.
Cities depend on the transportation industry to move goods in and out of the city. A city floating around the world would be tough to schedule deliveries for ("Where are they this week?"). And, because it's more difficult to dock and unload a ship, and then load onto a truck to deliver around the town, you're putting even more constraints on the shipment of goods.
There's a reason why the railroads revolutionized the American business market 200 years ago. There's a reason why the European Union thought it so important to unify and drop the barriers to inter-country travel.
Isolated cites == bad idea.
The only way to make this work would be to anchor the cities so that you can build roads into them. - 0xbaadf00d, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1This honestly reads like it's from the Onion...
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