HELP!! Sea Level rise is gonna kill me... HELP!! PLEASE!!!!
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PLEASE HELP!!!
I live on the sea front on the west coast of England, and although we've had extensive storm protection investment (anyone who's visited Burnham On Sea must be in awe of our beautiful curved sea wall
) according to the man on the BBC 6 o'clock news this evening I should be thinking about moving inland, or at least selling my car to reduce my carbon foot print.
Experts have now calculated that apparently the sea level could rise by twice as much as previously calculated (how those expert calculations were presumably 100% inaccurate to start with I cannot imagine) but the rub is I am now looking at a possible 1 metre rise in sea level, and I was already struggling to think of how I was going to cope with a 0.5 metre rise as previously advised by the experts.
Worse than that, it was reported by the BBC (and demonstrated by the reporter standing on a sea wall with a tape measure)that some expert opinions suggest the rise may be as much as 2 metres. Oh s
t, I can't even deal with 0.5 let alone 2.
PLEASE, if there's anyone here that has any suggestions I would be very grateful. The town was flooded back in the early Eighties, just like the pictures the BBC showed on their report this evening demonstrated, with the wind blowing the sea over the wall. Oh God things don't look good then, should I be investing in sand bags perhaps?
No wait, forget the sand bags, I have a cunning plan. I'll sell my car, buy some energy saving light bulbs, errmm... what else? Oh god, yes I will turn the telly off and not just leave it on stand by, errmmm....HELP ME what else?
Oh st I can't think right now, but please any suggestions will be gratefully received PLEASE. I've lived here for 22 years and anything I can do to stop the sea rising and risking my home, I will do. PLEASE help!
I'll read all of your suggestions tomorrow, and I'll pass them all onto the BBC to read out to their viewers on tomorrow evenings 6 o'clock news. Thanks in advance all.
I live on the sea front on the west coast of England, and although we've had extensive storm protection investment (anyone who's visited Burnham On Sea must be in awe of our beautiful curved sea wall
) according to the man on the BBC 6 o'clock news this evening I should be thinking about moving inland, or at least selling my car to reduce my carbon foot print.Experts have now calculated that apparently the sea level could rise by twice as much as previously calculated (how those expert calculations were presumably 100% inaccurate to start with I cannot imagine) but the rub is I am now looking at a possible 1 metre rise in sea level, and I was already struggling to think of how I was going to cope with a 0.5 metre rise as previously advised by the experts.
Worse than that, it was reported by the BBC (and demonstrated by the reporter standing on a sea wall with a tape measure)that some expert opinions suggest the rise may be as much as 2 metres. Oh s
t, I can't even deal with 0.5 let alone 2.PLEASE, if there's anyone here that has any suggestions I would be very grateful. The town was flooded back in the early Eighties, just like the pictures the BBC showed on their report this evening demonstrated, with the wind blowing the sea over the wall. Oh God things don't look good then, should I be investing in sand bags perhaps?
No wait, forget the sand bags, I have a cunning plan. I'll sell my car, buy some energy saving light bulbs, errmm... what else? Oh god, yes I will turn the telly off and not just leave it on stand by, errmmm....HELP ME what else?
Oh s
t I can't think right now, but please any suggestions will be gratefully received PLEASE. I've lived here for 22 years and anything I can do to stop the sea rising and risking my home, I will do. PLEASE help!I'll read all of your suggestions tomorrow, and I'll pass them all onto the BBC to read out to their viewers on tomorrow evenings 6 o'clock news. Thanks in advance all.
I saw this report on BBC world, and thought it was a terrible bit of reporting, the Reporter stood alongside the wall, with the top at waist height, put his tape measure on top of the wall and implied that the water would be 1 meter plus over the wall,
As the water was a good 6ft below the top of the wall even after the 1 meter increase there would be 2 to 3 feet margin.
I will accept that we did not know the state of the tide, but this is the sort os\f scare mongering reporting that leaves me wondering how real the danger is.
I also question the accuracy of a forecast made by someone who admits they were 100 % out with their last forecast. I will accept that we need to act now and cannot wait for the accuracy of hindsight, but it would be nice if the BBC give us statistical information not scare mongering.
As the water was a good 6ft below the top of the wall even after the 1 meter increase there would be 2 to 3 feet margin.
I will accept that we did not know the state of the tide, but this is the sort os\f scare mongering reporting that leaves me wondering how real the danger is.
I also question the accuracy of a forecast made by someone who admits they were 100 % out with their last forecast. I will accept that we need to act now and cannot wait for the accuracy of hindsight, but it would be nice if the BBC give us statistical information not scare mongering.
You need to sell your car as when the oceans and spill onto your car port, the rise in ocean acidity (caused by you owning your car) is going to rot the bodywork anyway 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7936137.stm
We're all doomed!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7936137.stm
We're all doomed!
Berw said:
I will accept that we need to act now and cannot wait for the accuracy of hindsight
Yes, quite.We need shot of this CO2 nonsense now, along with the current legislature whose noses are so far into the trough of these Carbon Schemes it's a piss take.
We also need to tell the Beeb to shove it's liceense fee until it stops peddling this PC, socialist b
ks.simple solution ....
get one of these ....
Remove all that nasty carbon footprint generating oil and gas hardware on top.
Replace with your house.
As the sea comes in, just jack your house up.
what are you, some kind of pussywhipped wimp wanting to move because of a little bit of climate change??
hth
ETA - an dtrade in both your alfa and your mazda for one of these
and one of these
get one of these ....
Remove all that nasty carbon footprint generating oil and gas hardware on top.
Replace with your house.
As the sea comes in, just jack your house up.
what are you, some kind of pussywhipped wimp wanting to move because of a little bit of climate change??
hth
ETA - an dtrade in both your alfa and your mazda for one of these
and one of these
Edited by XJSJohn on Wednesday 11th March 08:46
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