Re: Long term flood info


"zadoc" <zadoc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:48:20 -0000, "andicee"
> <andy.ceeatdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi again
>>
>>searching for a UK location that is safer than my current location. I know
>>I've asked this question before and have a few ideas in mind.
>>
>>When searching I've been using the Environmental Agency website
>>
>>http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/mapController
>>
>>Very helpful and informative it is too
>>
>>However I want a longer term analysis with regard to global warming and
>>rising sea levels
>>
>>Anyone got something for me??
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>andicee
>>
> I haven't seen your earlier posts, so really don't know what you are
> looking for. How high are you above sea level now? When talking a
> long term analysis are you talking years, decades, or a century?


50 years. Flooding is a particular obsession with me


>
> If talking of thermal expansion of sea water without taking icecap
> melting into account, you might be looking at a rise of a meter by
> 2100. The arctic icecap is not sitting on a continental base, so it
> could melt completely without any rise in sea level.
>
> You might be interested in the following article:
>
> December 21, 2005
>
> NASA's Grace Finds Greenland Ice Cap Melting Faster
>
> (AXcess News) Pasadena, CA - In the first direct, comprehensive mass
> survey of the entire Greenland ice ***, scientists using data from
> the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate
> Experiment (Grace) have measured a significant decrease in the mass of
> the Greenland ice cap. Grace is a satellite mission that measures
> movement in Earth's mass.
>
> In an update to findings published in the journal Geophysical Research
> Letters, a team led by Dr. Isabella Velicogna of the University of
> Colorado, Boulder, found that Greenland's ice *** decreased by 162
> (plus or minus 22) cubic kilometers a year between 2002 and 2005. This
> is higher than all previously published estimates, and it represents a
> change of about 0.4 millimeters (.016 inches) per year to global sea
> level rise.
>
> MORE at
> http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=7250
>
> If you check the following reference it will tell you how to calculate
> the sea level rise if the Greenland ice *** or Antarctic ice caps
> melt completely.
> http://www.secretsoftheice.org/icecore/sealevel.html
>
> To save readers time, though, will give their answers:
> Greenland: 562,289 mi3 / 133,968,400 mi2 = 0.0042 miles = 22 feet
>
> Antarctica: 6,329,947 mi3 / 133,968,400 mi2 = 0.0472 miles = 249 feet
>
> http://www.secretsoftheice.org/icecore/sealevel.answers.html
>
> Converting to metric:
> 22 feet = 6.7056 meters
> 249 feet = 75.8952 meters
>
> We know that they are currently melting. We don't know if they will
> completely melt or how long it will take if they do.
>
> However, if the melting speed increases, most port cities will become
> inoperable and world trade will be greatly affected. In short, if you
> are in England you may starve before you feel seawater around your
> ankles, depending on your current elevation.
>
> Sea level rise isn't the only problem, though. Global warming could
> affect the Gulf Stream which provides the UK with its comparatively
> mild climate and offsets its location in high latitudes.
>
> Suggest that you do a Google search on
> global warming england gulf stream
>
> First return:
> Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream
> Interactive guide to the Gulf Stream
>
> Ian Sample, science correspondent
> Thursday December 1, 2005
> The Guardian
>
> The powerful ocean current that bathes Britain and northern Europe in
> warm waters from the tropics has weakened dramatically in recent
> years, a consequence of global warming that could trigger more severe
> winters and cooler summers across the region, scientists warn today.
>
> Researchers on a scientific expedition in the Atlantic Ocean measured
> the strength of the current between Africa and the east coast of
> America and found that the circulation has slowed by 30% since a
> previous expedition 12 years ago.
> MORE at:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1654803,00.html?gusrc=rss

Loads of useful info to digest...cheers
>
> Other suggestions? Well, Australia is still accepting migrants, and
> you might consider relocating.

Been considering this for 3 years or so. The wife's very keen. I'm an
electrician too so a visa shouldn't be a prob. Our recent cockroach
experience sort of changed the wife's mind a bit tho. I told her if she
couldn't handle the odd cockroach how could she handle all the deadly bugs
you've got out there?? Go on, convince me. I'm 40 next September and the
visa will be harder to get.

Don't you also have a bit of a water shortage prob too tho? Yes I know that
takes care of my flooding phobia but that's going a bit far.

How about the recent racial violence. Fair play not wanting anymore muslims,
got the same sort of prob here, again, hence the move. Like I said, convince
me...PLEASE :)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> zadoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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