Re:Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
by barking on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:16PM
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Interesting but I'm not sure I'm buying it ;-)
Radisson is a small unconstituted locality so whether it qualifies as a town is questionable.
It also has a population small enough to fit in two or three buses.
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Re:Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
by nkurz on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:25PM
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How about Fermont in Quebec, then? http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_se...
It is predominantly French speaking, is 1° further north than Dunkirk, is incorporated as Ville de Fermont, has a population of about 2400.
It also has a Wikipedia page that claims "Fermont is arguably the world's northernmost Francophone settlement of any considerable size": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont.
Re:Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
by barking on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:46AM
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It's much cooler that Dunkirk should hold this distinction, isn't it, so can we agree please that these rather undistinguished places in Canada don't count? Anyway Dunkirk is a proper town/city (91K people, interesting history) not like this awful sounding place where everyone lives in a single building because it's like the moon there or something.