[ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science isn'tsettled

[spike]

...On Behalf Of Christopher Luebcke
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	Subject: Re: [ExI] Phil Jones acknowledging that climate science
isn'tsettled
	
	
	>...What would you consider a realistic scenario for sea level rise
over the next, say, 50-100 years? About 17 percent of Bangladesh is at an
elevation of one meter or less; a sea level rise of even have that this
century (which is entirely realistic) would still displace millions and
destroy a large area of food-producing land... 


Isn't there a European nation that is way down there in elevation?  The
Netherlands?  Why could not the people of Bangladesh embrace the technology
the Europeans pioneered a long time ago, build dikes, levies, windmills,
water handling technology, and so forth.  They have plenty of time to get it
done.  Failing that, they could dig out soil, make the high places higher
and give the lower places back to the sea.  

It isn't so much the Bangladesh people who are at risk, but rather their
low-technology lifestyles, a bit like the native Americans when the European
agriculturists started showing up in the 17th century.  Their style of
galloping around twanging arrows at bison was greatly at risk, and whole
tepee thing had to go.  These were replaced by pickup trucks, rifles and
travel trailers, which do the same jobs only better.

spike