Fear of flooding - part two
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 
"Major cities at risk from rising sea level threat" screamed the front page headline in yesterday's Times. "Sea levels will rise by twice as much as previously predicted as a result of global warming, an important international study has concluded.
"The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) calculated that if temperatures continued to increase at the present rate, by 2100 the sea level would rise by up to 1.4 metres - twice that predicted two years ago.
"Such a rise in sea levels would engulf island nations such as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and Tuvalu in the Pacific, devastate coastal cities such as Calcutta and Dhaka and force London, New York and Shanghai to spend billions on flood defences."
Clearly The Times didn't read THIS post last month.
Simon Clark
Two years ago, give or take a couple of weeks, we organised a party - attended by over 200 people - to mark the publication of Scared To Death - From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth by Christopher Booker and Richard North.
Sadly, although it was well received and was widely reviewed, I'm not sure that anyone was listening. We've just got to keep battling away until the message gets home. Volume two, perhaps?
Reader Comments (5)
The temperature across Antarctica has not risen over the past 30 years and there has been a 10 per cent increase in the amount of sea ice appearing during winter.
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Antarctica-protected-from-global-warming.5871004.jp
Just heard a brilliant debate on radio this morning where for once the climate change scaremongering journalist was made absolute shit of by his opponent, an australian geologist and scientist Ian Climber (might have the spelling wrong) who dismissed all this global warming bullshit spewing from the journalist who was called an apostle for his newspaper whose job depended on keeping the lies going about GW to keep himself in his job and who duly went ballistic over this and made a complete show of himself.
Ian Climber's debate was that abnormal climate change was normal!
Take a bow Martin V.
The calls that came flooding in after the show praised the debate, debunked the journalist, and said it had opened their eyes about climate change.
More debates like this please.
Hopefully about the lies on SHS and smoking!
We are more at risk from flooding due to poor management of the waterways than from climate change.
Cockermouth residents asked for the rivers to be dredged and they were not. That story is repeated across the country. Not dredging reduces the normal capacity of a river. Riverbanks are overgrown and throttling rivers and further reducing their capacity. Flood defences throttle rivers when they should be allowed to spread their floodwaters.
All three factors serve to exaggerate river levels beyond where they would normally be which is exploited by climate change fanaticists.
Although the MSM and the Political classes appear to be accepting the AGW fairy story.
Only because they have a vested interest though.
It is just like the anti smoking movement ,this religeon moves along similar lines.
Yep Anti smoking is definately a blueprint for totalitaerianism,
Wonder whats next let me see.
Heres how it works.
Former chairperson of some University or other's wacko political splinter group gets job as a political researcher.
Probably because no one else would employ them.
Next they get a constituancy.
Next they empose their warped logic on the real world.
Result?
Misery.
I worry about the next scam ,simply because it just gets worse.
"I worry about the next scam............."
RFID chips for your children (to 'protect' them from Bad People) ?
And To Be A Refuser = To Be An Abuser (audience applause).
Well, some day,anyway.
Hell, we can ALL dream........................