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NOTE: This effort is an independent action. It fits fully into the lightblueline goal of marking local geographies with the traces of potential future impacts.

Source: AP, January 31, 2008
"HONOLULU (AP) _ High school students have drawn blue chalk lines on Honolulu city sidewalks marking where scientists believe Oahu's high tide will reach after decades of global warming and rising sea levels.

In 50 to 100 years, they expect the Pacific Ocean to shift up to one mile inland from the current shoreline, putting all of Waikiki under water.

The demonstration coincides with an international climate change meeting under way at the East-West Center. The conference has brought high-level delegates from the world's top polluting nations in a global effort to head off global warming.

Sixteen-year-old Alexa Hettwer says her neighborhood and her school, Iolani, are among areas expected to be flooded.

She says the chalk lines shows that everything she knows would be underwater if sea levels rise as projected."