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George Stephanopolous reported yesterday that Senate Democrats forced Barack Obama to choose between two break-the-bank policies for this year. The White House apparently surrendered on cap-and-trade in order to get started on a massive overhaul of the nation’s health-care delivery system....
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That may put off the rest of his reforms until 2011, though. Obama will not want to impose a nationalized system in an election year, especially if he’s performing as badly then as he has in the last two months. Republicans are already licking their chops for the midterms, and a major socialist initiatitve will be exactly what they need to compete for control of the House. That probably pushes cap-and-trade to 2011, too.

Jennifer Marohasy » New Pacific Island

The great majority of oceanic islands in the Pacific were formed by this type of volcanic activity.
While the volcanoes are active, the islands rise relative to the global averaged sea-level. When volcanic activity stops, the islands will cool and eventually start to sink.

So there are islands rising and sinking all the time.

In fact the problems at Tuvalu, where Al Gore has claimed seawater inundation from rising sea waters, may have more to do with natural subsidence.