Even though I live here in Portland, Oregon, I really don't think that it represents the whole world.
A new report from the United Nations warns oceans are warming and sea levels are rising
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As a result of North Miami’s geographic location, the City is considered a coastal community and therefore vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea level rise. King Tides occur when the orbits and alignment of the Earth, moon, and sun combine to produce the greatest tidal effects of...
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Do you regularly weep over these drowned cities?
Drowned Cities
Excerpts:
Drowned cities
In the Mediterranean, earth movements resulting from earthquakes and volcanoes account for most of the submerged cities, but not all.
Because of the general rising of the water level of the Mediterranean, large sections of cities well known to history are now under water. Among these are Baise (a sort of ancient Las Vegas), numerous points along Italy’s western coast, cities along the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia, parts of Syracuse in Sicily, Lepis Magna in Libya, as well as the ancient harbours of Tyre and Caesarea.
Helike is believed to lie on the sea bottom near Corinth. In ancient times this sunken city was a tourist attraction for Roman visitors to Greece. They used to pass over it in boats, admiring the ruins visible through the clear water. The statue of Zeus, still standing, was clearly visible on the bottom.
Latin America
Among discoveries off South and Central America are these:
* Off Guayaquil, Ecuador, a drowned city from which statues, lenses and other artefacts have been brought up;
* Off Venezuela, a 30 foot wall running straight for at least 100 miles;
* Off Haiti, an entire submerged city;
* Off Cuba’s north coast, submerged streets and buildings white like marble;
* From Belize, ancient roads on land continue to destinations now under the sea;
* Off Hispaniola, Mexico, sunken buildings (one of them 240 by 80 feet);
* At 165 feet underwater, Costeau’s “Calypso” expedition discovered a huge grotto with stalactites and stalagmites, which can form only on land.
Cosmul is a jungle island. Once part of Mexico’s Yucatan mainland, it is now 12 miles from the shoreline. Yet there is a great highway with its lifted line of trees streaking across the jungle to Cosmul. The roadway, with its huge 9 foot sandstone flagging and hard cement cover, dips down under the waves at the coastline and again reappears on the dry land of Cosmul.
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You going to blame SUV's for all these drowned cities and more?