Andrew, what a great article, not only good science, but the photographs,truly excellent and informative, the delay in installing an early warning system is inexcusable. You may be interested to have a look at an article in the Science section of the current "New York Times", www.newyorktimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14WAVE.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th
the article discusses chevrons. There is a photograph of a chevron on the south end of madagascar 600' high, and 3 miles inland, mangroves aren't going to help here. The graphic is informative too, quite a few sites and impacts in Australia, interesting that the researchers used Google Earth in their work
Richard42

The concept of buffers has been one of the most abused and unsubstantiated methods in a broad range of environmental management fields.

It allows the mediocre to draw lines on a map of land that is effectively acquired for public purposes at no cost. And as the author so ably points out, they are a complete cop-out.

But from my understanding of Tsunami dynamics they are worse than merely useless, they actually exacerbate the problem. As any resident of the Brisbane bayside will testify, mangroves obscure the view. And this ensures that communities are totally dependent on electronic warning systems that may not even work.

And the worst damage is not caused by the water itself but rather, by the floating debris that is smashed into both humans and their structures. A mangrove or forest produces the perfect killing debris, it floats. Bricks and cement may crumble but they also settle sooner. Once again, the abstract green whimsies of distant, unaffected daytrippers are being allowed to threaten the very lives of ordinary people.

lets try again recent post rejected heres what i was told
Dear layla,

Your general discussion thread entitled "The Drought And Weather Control" has
been rejected by the moderator.

Sorry. You're joking surely.

Regards,

National Forum Administrator

haarp is a weather control machine designed to control the weather
heres the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlORegrdVXM
idoubt this will be allowed on here as they the moderators are scared it will get out otherwise why would they delet my previuos post
peace layla

Um, ok, layme.

Don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist myself, but there seems to be a strong element of socialist thought underlying this tsunami greenbelt idea. One of the best ways to attack capitalism is to undermine private property rights. I would think that forced resettlement along the coasts would affect the property rights of a large proportion of the population. No surprise that it came out of Scandinavia.

What I want to know is, has our $Billion in aid to tsunami victims been hijacked to assist these goons in their policy of dispossession?

Can anyone clarrify this issue?