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ISLAND BORN
Attention, Geoffrey Lean: got a brand new island for you. And Mr Bingley would like you to sing his pretty song. In other toasty-globey news:
Sure, it could lead to famine, extinctions and the submersion of much of Florida - but it’s great for Walt Parkin’s golf game.
“I love global warming,” Parkin, 56, of Whitehall, said Friday afternoon, at Moon Golf Club. Cars clogged the club’s four-row parking lot at 2 p.m. as Parkin packed up his clubs after playing 18 holes with friend Bob Stroup, 64, of Green Tree. Parkin said he usually stops golfing in October, but “I’ve gone out five or six times” since then this year.
Vicious monster. He should be playing ultimate frisbee.
(Via Gravelly)
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The birth, growth, erosion, and gradual subsidence of an island, its slow colonization by organisms and the evolution and eventual decline of its biota are continuous, if incredibly slow, processes, not really episodic as my description may have suggested. We must remember that during the enormous span of time during which the first islands to appear in our mountain range reached the maximum development of their biotas, one after another, a whole series of younger islands emerged from the sea. Thus, at any one time all or most of the principal stages or conditions described earlier were in existence simultaneously. In addition to occasional successful new colonizations from outside the young archipelago, more frequently plants and animals from islands within the group succeeded in crossing the smaller water barriers between the islands. Thus the distinctive biota of the archipelago was evolved and maintained. As the millions of years passed, new volcanoes arose, extending the mountain range to the southeast, and enlarging the archipelago as the Pacific plate slowly moved northwestward. The oldest islands on the northwest end of the chain gradually eroded away and subsided, giving an opportunity for the myriads of calcium-carbonate-secreting, reef- building organisms to grow and build the wondrous structures and communities of organisms that we call coral-reefs. These reefs, at least ones of any large extent, are formed on slowly subsiding coast-lines. Darwin, in his well-known theory of atoll formation, showed the gradual change from fringing reefs, closely lining the island shores to more distant barrier reefs ringing the partly subsided, eroded remnants of volcanoes with coral just breaking the surface and carrying sand-cays and islets of coral sand and debris. Eventually, when the central volcanic peak or peaks had subsided out of sight, a ring of coral reef and coral islets, called an atoll, remained. The term atoll is modified from the language of the Maldive Islands, a notable archipelago of these coral rings or “necklaces” in the central Indian Ocean.
I actually got out for a bit of golf this afternoon myself. Granted, we don’t get any of the really nasty winter stuff around here (except for the wind) but a number of the local courses remain open and playable. The main issue is that it gets dark too soon, so maybe we could get some Glowball Lightenizing or something like that in there to fix that…
Ultimate. Frisbee. Monbiot, meet Modular Disc-Wing Urban Cruise Munition.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 12 31 at 05:24 AM • permalinkI could use some gelerbil wariming here…...I have to remove some ice from a friend’s sidewalk and driveway!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 31 at 02:06 PM • permalink
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Maybe they’re Sundarban refugee islands setting up near Tonga? After all, nothing bad related to the weather ever happens there.