Re: La Palma Tsunami Paper
From: Phil. Felton (felton_at_princeton.edu)
Date: 10/24/04
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:14:48 -0400
Thomas Palm wrote:
> Thomas Lee Elifritz <crackpots@everywhere.net> wrote in news:m0Ced.3497
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> > October 23, 2004
> >
> > http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf
>
> What is interesting with papers like this is that they put more weight on
> the possibility of an 8 meter tsunami in Florida than 100 meter waves
> hitting Africa. Science is supposed to be neutral, but it really isn't.
A look at the relief map of the Morrocan and Mauritanian coastline and their
population density in comparison with Florida should make it clear. Also
the authors don't seem to make any value judgements about the respective
locations so I'm not sure what you're referring to. All the holiday resorts
in the Canaries would be trashed however!
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