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Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:
> Meantime, here in my junk'n'stuff, there's a map that cost me a pretty  
> penny, showing which areas of NA would be inundated - and to what degree -  should 
> global warming cause the seas to rise. When I got it, back in '05, I  figgered 
> I'd head for North Dakota.
>  
> Any truth to that rumor?

I've seen those maps...better yet, I have coveted those 
maps..lol...pricey is right!
I'm not sure that I buy into GMS or Toye's map, but I think the maps 
have value nonetheless.  Mostly they are based on the past, like the 
wide Mississippi valley sea stretching from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. 
 It's been that way in the past, so it is likely to happen again. 
When, we don't know.  You won't lose the western US from sea level rise 
alone, but much of it was underwater in the past.  I think what a lot of 
"earthchange seers" have done is taken glimpses of the past at different 
times and combined it all into one catastrophic map, and I just don't 
think it will work that way.  For every action, there will be an equal 
and opposite reaction....if sea level rises in one place, depressing the 
 crust down, it will rise somewhere else, or will be sublimed and 
'recycled' as lava somewhere or something...so for example, if the 
western US sank, for some reason, that same force would cause other 
areas to rise.  There is a theory that the whole New Madrid Fault zone, 
since it is mid plate, is from glacial rebound...the land springs back 
now that there is no huge glacier pressing it down...


Bev

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