At 1:30 PM +0200 6/7/07, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Hey, at 65 m maximum elevation you better not have too much beach estate, given sea level rise. And hurricanes, too.
We'll at about 74 feet. (None of those pussy "meters" thankyouverramuch.) No storm surge problem there, and the island may be a rock, but the rock is limestone. Percolation is your friend. As for global "warming", I think your chancellor said it best a few days ago. Color me skeptical... Of course, if that mountain in the Canaries lets go and falls into the sea... :-) Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'