We’ve already had several days of truly gorgeous weather — temperatures in the 80’s Fahrenheit, not too humid, blazing sun — and at least a couple more are expected. For Ireland, this is most welcome: too often summer here is mostly gray and in the 60’s. 
…Down at the pub, I heard one of the neighbors saying, “If this is global warming, bring it on! Let’s all go out and run our cars!”
Uh, yeah. Well, it seems some researchers estimated what the sea levels would be in two hundred years if global warming went unchecked, and then consulted Space Shuttle-based topographic data and generated a map of what Ireland would look like at that point.
Hmm. I always wanted to live in Earthsea… (But somehow I have trouble imagining Athlone as the location of Roke.)
(The research was reported in the July 28th edition of the tabloid Irish Daily Star as being part of a documentary done for the UKTv History cable/satellite network; but I can’t find an online link to the show itself, or the article in the paper. Apparently the Star doesn’t archive, and the UKTv site is kind of hard to dig things out of…)
[tags]Ireland, global warming, ocean, sea, rise[/tags]
