Of course that would never suffice; too bad about
those who wish for natural disasters...
--- Wolfgang Schaub
<
Wolfgang.Schaub@...> wrote:
> Flooding is REALLY happening - against George W.
> Bush's perception. Check
> "DVR90" in google, and "history", and you will come
> to sites that explain
> why Denmark decided to change its nationwide
> triangulation system, away from
> a fix zero level (by convention in Esbjerg harbour)
> to a flexible zero level
> (determined as the average of 10 levels along
> Denmark's coastline over the
> past 100 years). This was because sea has risen by
> 14.6 cm between 1990 and
> 2002, at least in Esbjerg harbour.
>
> Sea may rise, but it will NOT suffice to drown
> America.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael Kaufman
> [mailto:mikekaufman79@...]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. November 2004 07:02
> An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: AW: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost
> point in Europe
>
>
>
> In such big flooding, wouldn't much of Europe
> disappear too?
> Yikes!
> And I have quite a few more tripoints still to
> visit!
>
> --- Wolfgang Schaub
> <Wolfgang.Schaub@...> wrote:
>
> > "Given sufficient rise in sea level":
> >
> > What a nice concept! Given sufficient rise in sea
> > level I would -
> > virtually - be the winner, having been on top of
> > Cerro di Aconcagua, highest
> > peak of the Americas and the entire world outside
> of
> > Asia, on the 17th
> > January 1997. And knowing all America drowned - no
> > further comment.
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> > PS: Didn't mean this personally, Lowell
> > -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Lowell G. McManus
> > [mailto:mcmanus71496@...]
> > Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2004 09:26
> > An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Betreff: Re: [BoundaryPoint] The easternmost
> point
> > in Europe
> >
> >
> > I was totally wrong earlier tonight when I wrote
> > that the first break
> > between
> > the Americas, given sufficient rise in sea
> level,
> > would be at the
> > approximate
> > location of the canal in Panama.
> >
> > Before the excavation of the Culebra or Gaillard
> > Cut across the lowest
> > point in
> > the Panamanian cordillera, the elevation there
> was
> > 333.5 feet. A few
> > hundred
> > miles to the northwest, however, one can go from
> > the Caribbean Sea, up the
> > Rmo
> > San Juan, and into Lake Nicaragua, which has a
> > natural surface elevation
> > of 110
> > feet and a bottom well below sea level. This
> lake
> > is separated from the
> > Pacific
> > Ocean by the narrow Isthmus of Rivas, the lowest
> > point on which is only
> > 154 feet
> > above sea level. This, then, is where the
> Central
> > American Land Bridge
> > would
> > first breech if sea level were to rise.
> >
> > Since I am hardly prepared to accept Costa Rica
> as
> > a South American
> > nation, I
> > will revert to the narrowest point on the
> Isthmus
> > of Panama, a dozen or so
> > miles
> > east of the canal, as the appropriate division.
> >
> > To accept the juncture of the tectonic Caribbean
> > and South American plates
> > as
> > the limit between North and South America would
> > put the northern fringes
> > of
> > Colombia and Venezuela in the former. I don't
> > think that we want to do
> > that
> > either. Furthermore, this plate juncture is
> > invisible on the surface.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
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