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Yeah. Thanks for the info Debbie Downer.

With rising oceans , I imagine Diego Garcia will be a lot smaller in a couple decades.



"Top 5 Most Vulnerable Military Installations (listed in no specific order)

The following bases are strategically important for the US and are also extremely vulnerable to extreme weather, rising sea-levels, coastal erosion and other effects of climate change.

1. Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is a critical logistics hub for the US and UK militaries in the Middle East. However, the island is a coral atoll encompassing 67 square miles, of which only 10 square miles is dry land.7

Due to its exposure to the extreme weather in the Indian Ocean, changing temperatures and increasing rainfall, Diego Garcia faces the threat of coastal erosion and flooding. The highest point above sea-level is 22 feet, but the island’s mean height above sea-level is 4 feet.

Most areas do not exceed 6.5 feet (2 meters). A sea-level rise of a several feet would force the US military to undertake a costly and difficult military relocation process; in addition, the military would lose a geographically strategic outpost in the Indian region."



http://americansecurityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Military-Basing-and-Climate-Change.pdf



I sure wouldn't buy any property or make any long term investments in a coastal area so likely to be submerged. I suppose the US could dredge and fill, but the pretty beaches might not survive.

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Read that other thread. Haven't been but it left an impression and is on my radar as a potential future locale for myself... I already have a few others that are even more unknown (particularly to Americans) which I intend to visit in the coming years, maybe more...