UK energy future

[LucidDementia]

I keep waiting to hear that we killed the dinosaurs with deodorant.

[LucidDementia]

Indeed, however London would be inundated rather earlier.

Eight out of the ten largest cities are coastal.

Zero out of ten have been lost to the rising seas.

Call us back when the Maldives resorts are out of business.

[pjclarke]

Zero out of ten have been lost to the rising seas.

Call us back when the Maldives resorts are out of business.

Ah, wait until its too late, you mean.

Remind me not to include you in any risk workshops.

[LucidDementia]

Ah, wait until its too late, you mean.

Remind me not to include you in any risk workshops.

So a sea level rise of 1 metre is the end of the world now? /chortle

[EternalOptimist]

Ah, wait until its too late, you mean.

Remind me not to include you in any risk workshops.

You haven't got a monopoly on risk, you don't have a clue, do you ?

[BlasterBates]

Damascus during the drought years caused by global warming.

Damascus Photo by safwan | 2:11 pm 25 Feb 2012

[LucidDementia]

[pjclarke]

So a sea level rise of 1 metre is the end of the world now? /chortle

No, but it would will cause a refugee crisis that will make what we face now look like a vicarage tea party. Storm surges far worse, billions of pounds of new sea and flood defences, massive displacement of people, unless we can build a wall round Bangladesh?

Also, you don't need to flood a city to make it uninhabitable, about a billion people in coastal populations rely on underwater aquifers, these are already under stress due to overextraction and vulnerable to inunundation by saltwater with just modest SLR. But hey its not happening yet so why worry?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...64569101000576

[DodgyAgent]

We have established that PJ Clarke is not interested in solving the problem of climate change - which means that it is not really a problem at all. He is more interested in using it to manipulate others. Instead of facing this question he is ignoring it.

[LucidDementia]

In the interests of fairness I'll give him a chance.

Please tell me exactly what I can do to help stop the tide of doom.

I currently run a 6 litre V12 and heat a 300m2 building on gas and wood. And I fart quite a bit, but not as much as the wife.