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When Arrogance Meets Arrogance

Egyptian agriculture faces a serious threat from rising sea levels, impacting food security and the Nile River delta. Understanding climate change solutions is essential.

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So what happens when two insufferably smug climate bloggers butt heads over at Climate Progress? It's a karmic exchange:

Eli Rabett says

February 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm:

As usual, this misses the real point. The current and long term threat to Egyptian agriculture is sea level rise. Egypt is a combination of Chile and Bangladesh, a fertile river delta with a long thin coastal region along the Nile and nothing else. The delta is being inundated by sea level rise (and sinking as water is pumped out of wells). If you don't address that, you are spiting into the wind. [JR: As usual? I'm letting this comment thru cause you're a colleague. But until you've blogged on sea level rise half as much as I have, don't suggest I've omitted something by not including SLR in every friggin' post I write on a related subject. Heck, when you've done ...

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