It's official.

[R.A. Hettinga]

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

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