HELP!! Sea Level rise is gonna kill me... HELP!! PLEASE!!!!
Discussion
payner2008 said:
deeps said:
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.
Alright fella? just want to say i don't really have an opinion of the rising sea levels and all that, i just want to say hi to a fellow person from B-O-S.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.
How do you fid the place, just out of interest?
im living in burham too at the moment , btw are you an electrician ?
Somerset levels article said:
During the 7th millennium BC the sea level rose and flooded the valleys so the Mesolithic people occupied seasonal camps on the higher ground, indicated by scatters of flints
Anyone interested please take a look at the link below. The first photo is taken from Glastonbury (20 miles inland) and looks out towards the coast. The hill is Brent Knoll (very prominent when passing along the M5 by Sedgemoor services) and just to the right of that in the distance you can see Steep Holm, a small island in the Bristol channel most prominent when looking from Weston Super Mare sea front. Burnham On Sea is just to the left of Brent Knoll in the photo.Years ago, Glastonbury Tor, Brent Knoll and other small hills were islands surrounded by the sea. The link explains the history.
article said:
Although underlain by much older Triassic age formations that protrude to form what would once have been islands — such as Athelney, Brent Knoll, Burrow Mump and Glastonbury Tor — the lowland landscape was formed only during the last 10,000 years, following the end of the last ice age. Glastonbury Tor is composed of Upper Lias Sand. In prehistory it is thought that, due to winter flooding, humans restricted their use of the levels to the summer, a practice that gave rise to name of the county of Somerset (derived from Sumorsaete, meaning land of the summer people
Question is, how could the sea level have been so high all those years before man was driving around in 4x4's and burning fossil fuels? There were no carbon foot prints on the sand at Burnham beach back then, because it was completely under water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Levels#cite_...
Edited by deeps on Thursday 12th March 03:22
deeps said:
Somerset levels article said:
During the 7th millennium BC the sea level rose and flooded the valleys so the Mesolithic people occupied seasonal camps on the higher ground, indicated by scatters of flints
Anyone interested please take a look at the link below. The first photo is taken from Glastonbury (20 miles inland) and looks out towards the coast. The hill is Brent Knoll (very prominent when passing along the M5 by Sedgemoor services) and just to the right of that in the distance you can see Steep Holm, a small island in the Bristol channel most prominent when looking from Weston Super Mare sea front. Burnham On Sea is just to the left of Brent Knoll in the photo.Years ago, Glastonbury Tor, Brent Knoll and other small hills were islands surrounded by the sea. The link explains the history.
article said:
Although underlain by much older Triassic age formations that protrude to form what would once have been islands — such as Athelney, Brent Knoll, Burrow Mump and Glastonbury Tor — the lowland landscape was formed only during the last 10,000 years, following the end of the last ice age. Glastonbury Tor is composed of Upper Lias Sand. In prehistory it is thought that, due to winter flooding, humans restricted their use of the levels to the summer, a practice that gave rise to name of the county of Somerset (derived from Sumorsaete, meaning land of the summer people
Question is, how could the sea level have been so high all those years before man was driving around in 4x4's and burning fossil fuels? There were no carbon foot prints on the sand at Burnham beach back then, because it was completely under water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Levels#cite_...
Edited by deeps on Thursday 12th March 03:22
deeps said:
The worst part is the wind of course, which can be a battle just to walk against to those that heve never been here lol.
Seems awfully rude of you not to take something for it -especially if you know people are trying to walk against it ??Seriously-try changing your diet- or use a cork if it's that powerful & have you considered that you might be contributing to global warming yourself? Talk about engineering your own downfall !!
unclemark123 said:
payner2008 said:
deeps said:
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 st, 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.
Alright fella? just want to say i don't really have an opinion of the rising sea levels and all that, i just want to say hi to a fellow person from B-O-S.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.
How do you fid the place, just out of interest?
im living in burham too at the moment , btw are you an electrician ?payner2008 said:
unclemark123 said:
payner2008 said:
deeps said:
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 st, 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.
Alright fella? just want to say i don't really have an opinion of the rising sea levels and all that, i just want to say hi to a fellow person from B-O-S.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.
How do you fid the place, just out of interest?
im living in burham too at the moment , btw are you an electrician ?
Why bother with the BBC? Most of their journalism comes from members of the Labour party's spin team who feed them stories.
As for this "global-warming/global-cooling/damn let's call it climate-change" carp, it's nothing but a rather poor excuse to make us pay more tax, particularly those of us who enjoy life, who have higher than average levels of testosterone, who like to choose to take risks with ourselves, who possibly work harder than the average in order to be able to play harder.
Anyone with sea view, enjoy it. If the sea's so close, go and enjoy surfing on it, jetskiing it, boating on it, fishing in it, and if you put out some CO2 in the process, well you've probably paid through the nose, both nostrils several times over, for the privilege of doing so, so don't you dare feel guilty or else I'll be there to give you a good talking to!
As for this "global-warming/global-cooling/damn let's call it climate-change" carp, it's nothing but a rather poor excuse to make us pay more tax, particularly those of us who enjoy life, who have higher than average levels of testosterone, who like to choose to take risks with ourselves, who possibly work harder than the average in order to be able to play harder.
Anyone with sea view, enjoy it. If the sea's so close, go and enjoy surfing on it, jetskiing it, boating on it, fishing in it, and if you put out some CO2 in the process, well you've probably paid through the nose, both nostrils several times over, for the privilege of doing so, so don't you dare feel guilty or else I'll be there to give you a good talking to!
why doesn't everybody convert their car to run on water,
cures 2 problems
(1) no more petrol to buy at extortionately taxed prices(less money for m.p's to agree to bigger salaries and expenses)
(2) the more you drive, the more water you use, the more the sea level goes down
just imagine what the morons would tax next?
(another resident from burnham-on-sea)
cures 2 problems
(1) no more petrol to buy at extortionately taxed prices(less money for m.p's to agree to bigger salaries and expenses)
(2) the more you drive, the more water you use, the more the sea level goes down
just imagine what the morons would tax next?
(another resident from burnham-on-sea)
Edited by akw1 on Friday 3rd April 13:25
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