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South Padre Is Next

by Tim F|  December 26, 200610:30 pm| 7 Comments

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Well, probably not. But it should be.

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  1. 1.

    demimondian

    December 26, 2006 at 10:41 pm

    FWIW, the folks over at Slashdot debunked this pretty thoroughly. (Why Slashdot? Well, if the Slashdolts can debunk something, then it’s pretty clearly not your ordinary run-of-the-mill bunk, but some superspecial spoofy bunk…) There’s certainly an effect due to sea level changes, but the actual mechanism is clearly driven by other effects.

  2. 2.

    ThymeZone

    December 26, 2006 at 11:00 pm

    Darrell called and said that he won’t believe there’s anything to this global warming thing until Gilligan’s Island is in danger.

  3. 3.

    norbizness

    December 27, 2006 at 9:14 am

    The “should be” comment in the main post is a little opaque.

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    Tim F.

    December 27, 2006 at 9:51 am

    That was me musing out loud about small inhabited islands which might actually do some policy good if they got swallowed up by rising sea levels.

    But as Demimondian points out an island can disappear for a couple of reasons so I didn’t put that much emphasis on the story. It’s a data point and not a case on its own.

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    demimondian

    December 27, 2006 at 9:58 am

    Meh. The National Seashore on South Padre is quite beautiful, you know, in a switchgrass-and-natural-desolation kind of way. I recommend it, particularly in the dead of winter when you don’t have to share it with (other) tourists.

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    Zifnab

    December 27, 2006 at 10:07 am

    As one of the posters pointed out, jacking up the sea level 2-3 inches probably didn’t slay the island outright, but it probably didn’t help either.

    It’s just a shame that, once again, the media needs to sensationalize the news rather than actually reporting on the science behind it. If people still question whether Global Warming is real, I can’t help but think it is in some part by the media hypsters who just want four-inch tall fonts on their newspaper articles whenever they report on something.

  7. 7.

    Barry

    December 27, 2006 at 12:34 pm

    Tim, if the kids can’t party on S. Padre Island, then I’m afraid it’s your place for spring break. The good news is that you’ll get all the free beer that you can drink.

    The bad news is that your yard will get all of the, how shall we say it, ‘used beer’ that it can absorb.

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