"Alan LeHun" wrote in message
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In article , lawrence13
@sky.com says...
All the
scare stories of killer heat waves, increased hurricanes, The Maldives
dissapearing under rising oceans and so on have so far failed to
materialse.



What worries me is that when events like the decline in arctic ice and
heatwaves and desertification and the Maldives were first mooted they
were like, in 100 years or more. It is only the measured data and
particularly the somewhat rapid decline of the Arctic Ice sheet over
these last few years that has spurned some to say "it's happening faster
than we feared". The timespans before these "disasters" were predicted
to happen have been shrinking at a rate that has these events moving
towards us faster than we have been moving towards them.

When people first started to worry about CC (or GW as it was) it wasn't
expected to affect us much in our lifetimes. As such, I think it a bit
disingenuous to ridicule them on the basis that they haven't happened
"yet"

--
Alan LeHun


But Alan I clearly remeber a BBC Newsnight item wher their correspondont was
actually in the Maldives claiming that the sea level would be well above
he's head in fifty years time. Now that was well over 7 years ago and it
hasn;t moved yet

Searching for the Maldives NewsNight story I found this which was telling
and amusing at the same time http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/563127.stm
This is from 1999 with Jonh Simpson warning of sea level rises threatening
the island