Long-Term Forecast For Historic Jamestown VA - Blub . . . Blub . . . Blub . . .

[hatrack]

Sept. 1) -- Jamestown, Va., the site of the first permanent English colony in what became the United States, could be wiped off the map by climate change, researchers warned today.

As the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels could completely swamp the historical location that has stood as an icon of American history for the past 400 years, according to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.

"Virtually all of Jamestown Island, the site of Jamestown, is low enough to be covered by water if seas and tidal water rise as much as now believed to be likely in this century," it said. "One of the nation's most important historic sites is in grave danger of being completely inundated."

English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607 to establish a colony. They had to battle famine, disease and warfare with the local Native Americans in order to survive. Jamestown went on to become an early site in the American slave trade, as well as a military outpost in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Jamestown "is where America's colonial history began," Theo Spencer, a senior advocate at the NRDC, told reporters. "We need to act now to reduce the pollution that causes climate change."


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[T Wolf]

1. The founders were short-sighted - so exhausted by the voyage they stopped and settled in a SWAMP!

Not very good planning as disease wiped out so many so quickly.

[The Croquist]

2. The sad thing is that the fort was destroyed by erosion in the 1800's

before the sea wall was erected in 1900. Then in 1994 archaeologists discovered that the fort hadn't been destroyed after all. Oops! Now if you go there like I did in 2005 the site is preserved. I have no doubt that hundreds of years from now the site will still be there. What I doubt is that anybody will remember the global warming scare of today or the tactics used to push an agenda.

Read the article. It is full of dribble:

As the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels could completely swamp the historical location that has stood as an icon of American history for the past 400 years, according to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.

As I said before, it was thought to already be wiped off the map but the scientists were wrong. "This time, for sure! Presto!"*

"Virtually all of Jamestown Island, the site of Jamestown, is low enough to be covered by water if seas and tidal water rise as much as now believed to be likely in this century," it said. "One of the nation's most important historic sites is in grave danger of being completely inundated."

Apparently without building the sea wall 110 years ago it would already be gone. Was it wrong to interfere with nature back then?

We need to act now to reduce the pollution that causes climate change.

So is this a story about Jamestown or an excuse to scare people?

The average temperature at Jamestown could rise by as much as 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, according to the report.

Is there a downside estimate? How about a mean estimate or is only some absurd high end estimate worth printing? I remember reading that global warming can lower temperatures. Maybe coastal Virginia will be like New England in 2100.

Even before the end of the century, extreme weather could cause serious erosion to the island, the report says. Sea erosion gnawed at the west coast of the island for decades before a sea wall was erected in 1900.

Was the risk to the island prior to 1900 caused by extreme weather or was it natural?

* Bullwinkle J. Moose
1962

[Hissyspit]

3. Jamestown will be preserved.

And that has nothing to do with whether human-caused climate change is a "scare." Your arguments are full of false equivalence:

"Was the risk to the island prior to 1900 caused by exteme weather or was it natural?" It was natural then. So what?

"Scientists were wrong. This time for sure!" They were wrong then. Could be right now. So what?