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Kirjava
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Posted - 2007.09.19 12:47:00 -
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Edited by: Kirjava on 19/09/2007 12:48:12
Ok - I will open up by being honest, I'm only starting A-Level Geography this year so excuse my ignorance on many of the finer issues.
From what I have read so far there is a consensus that people agree GW (Global Warming - not the Chimp wannabe) is happening. Just last month there was mass flooding in Gloucestershire, Yorksire, Oxfordshire and Southern Wales to name a few.
Seems to me that we are now beyond preventing the consequences and should invest more money in redeveloping city infrastructure for drainage. I cannot speak for the Americans (sorry, I just never studied them) but much of the UK is still running on the Victorian built system. Shoulden't governments now be aiming more for damage control and so called "deffences" for the coast as opposed to increasing taxes and to be frank - the Queen Elizabeth 2 series of Carriers? I mean those cost ú4Billion each when fitted with fighters andit takes ú20Billion to fortify London against rising sea levels.
Well.... not realy rising sea levels per say just the southern coast of Britian is sinking because of isostatic movement after the last Ice age.
Well thats my two pence, flame away.
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Kirjava
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Posted - 2007.09.19 13:13:00 -
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Originally by: Cornucopian
The globe IS warming, but I doubt man has as much influence as lobbyists would have you believe.
So from that point, we should try and adapt for the future as opposed to focussing disproportional energies and resources into telling us how many people are going to die, mainly in the poorer countries that cannot afford basic protection.
That point makes alot of sense, I'll look into that soon, chears.
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Kirjava
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Posted - 2007.09.19 15:28:00 -
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Originally by: Sokratesz
Edited by: Sokratesz on 19/09/2007 15:16:50
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I got a question for you all. Why does the ocean water level rise?
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Hint: 'ice caps melting' is not it.
Assuming this isn't rhetoric....
Ocean levels rise for a myriad of reasons and in diferent places.
As I mentioned earlier in Soutern Britian, the land is literaly sinking into the channel as part of isostatic movement. Essentialy this is from the weight of the ice in the last ice age pushed down on the land and very slowly pushed it into the magma. Thousands of years after the ice is gone isostaic movement is the correction of this and an equilibriam being formed (it's so slow because of the viscosity of the magma).
Theres the famous "ice cube" show in "The Inconvinient truth" - the ice allready floating on the ocean such as the ice shelves isn't a problem in itself as it melts, as it allready displaces its own mass as it's floating. When the land based ice melts it displaces the seawater, thus raising sea levels.
Thirdly as the water absorbs heat it expands due to thermal expansion which also increases the effective volume of the oceans.
I think thats all of it, and ice caps melting does contribute something as what was previously not in the system is going back in, but at the moment I don't think it's made an appearance as a contributor, just is sitting over in the corner waiting to pounce in the future....
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Kirjava
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Posted - 2007.09.19 16:48:00 -
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Originally by: Nyphur
I'm really not seeing a good counterargument to living underground here. I'll start digging, who wants to live in my new underground land?
It's not a new idea - called a Geofront.
If ice caps come again I'm going to get the government to build a dome over Edinburgh and I can laugh at everyone else as ice pwns their cities.
Also - yea I did say it was small the amount that the caps were afecting the water levels - I think that water levels are rising regardless of who is to blame or where teh water is coming from, it needs to be stopped from destroying our cities.
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Kirjava
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Posted - 2007.09.19 16:56:00 -
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Originally by: Celeste Coeval
I'll type more in sec, my indian neighbour just made me some food 
afk:P
Just remember to tell us what it was and what it tasted like please 
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