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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (17494)	11/19/2007 5:46:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 36921

Yawn: <In the first volume of a major report on global warming, published in February, the IPCC said sea levels would climb between 18 and 59 centimetres by 2100.> Imagine that!! Another 20 centimetres of sea level. I don't think that would be very visible. Even half a metre hardly rates wading boots. They removed the upper bound, because the ice could melt... and so that it remains really scary. Most people won't be worried about 20cm of tide rise over 100 years when they only live half of that. If they live away from coast lines, they won't care at all. I can't see Zimbabweans getting in a lather over even 13 metres of sea level rise, which is the upper bound mentioned in that article. 13 metres tide rise over a century is trival too. People could build huge dyke systems across plains before the water comes in, then build vast aquaculture systems. Fish is much nicer to eat than dead cow. Any new buildings could be built above the new water-line. Old buildings will be well past their use-by date in another 100 years. Roads will have been rebuilt 5 times. Decommission old things as they go under water, recycling what's useful to a higher level. Century old sewers won't be worth much, so they can be simply abandoned. With people building at higher levels in anticipation, huge saving of life and property will result because when the real problem arrives, namely a bolide splashdown causing a 10 metre tsunami, people won't get their feet wet. They will have moved up-hill. Mqurice