I think We can figure out the "Flooding" part!

As if we didn't have enough to worry about in South Delta, a recent letter writer to this paper has tied in "Global Warming" with the issue of land use.

In it, the author proposterously illustrates a scenario whereby we will need the Southlands to be maintained as Farmland so that higher portions of it will be available for agricultural use as the majority of our sea level ALR lands will be flooded as a part of Climate Change.

He also goes on to suggest that limited access to irrigation waters in Mexico and California will make our unflooded northern lands lands even more valuable.

Now I see why the Government has been "secretly" negotiating with the TFN to release lands from the ALR. The Government is actually trying to hoodwink the TFN because it knows the lands will be underwater in a couple of years anyway.... sort of like one of those Florida realestate scams.

Since we are going to be all washed up soon I am hoping that the Provincial Government considers converting the South Perimeter Road in to the "South Perimeter Bridge" before it is too late. It would connect South Delta with....um.. reality?

You know those for sale signs that pop up all the time along HIghways 17 and 10 selling "acres of prime farmland?", no one is buying yet because they are waiting.... waiting for the appropriate time to apply to the DFO for oyster or clam farming licenses.

See? Global Warming can have some benefits. Actually, the ideal situation would be to have a farm half flooded and the other half farmable for some potatoes and corn. Throw a couple of cows and a few pigs at it and you could have the worlds first operating chowder farm, a perfect example of mans ingenuity in dealing with the complexities of his own evolution.

I can see the welcome sign now on the South Perimeter bridge..."Welcome to Tsawwassen...mmm.. mmm.. good".

Look, we all know we have been bad people. Burning fossil fuels have contributed to Global Warming. It will take a few hundred years, but It can be fixed. Until it is, we are not going to be overcome with sudden floods and "man made hurricanes".

There are lots of models and scenarios out there but the reality is that if you read them as they are issued from the authors you will note that for the most part they use language appropriate of science and not of alarmist fear-mongering climate change evangelists.

Kyoto is essentially a failure but that is OK. The groundwork is there and the principle can evolve to the point where maybe one day some meaningful measures and policies will be enacted on by appropriate countries to reduce CO2 and other emissions.

Until that time a sober measured approach is the best method of swaying any political tide on this. "The Sky is Falling" media coverage that seems to easily build inaccurate and fear based share of mind within the masses may ultimately lead to a pessimism that will do little to inspire our desire to participate in any legitimate climate change problem solving exercises.