Submerging Australia

Stonehead · Post: # 35026Post **Stonehead** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:03 pm

Now you see it, now you don't: the land down under going under

Then click on the Latest Related Coverage: Multimedia link. I could link direct to it, but then you'd lose the context.

Boots · Post: # 35028Post **Boots** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:17 pm

Far out... Cool media... but he doesn't leave us much to work with does he!?!

dibnah · Post: # 35029Post **dibnah** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:20 pm

"were gonna need a bigger boat"

floating allotments are the solution

Magpie · Post: # 35036Post **Magpie** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:08 pm

Sheesh - so what'll happen to New Zealand????!!!!

Shirley · Post: # 35037Post **Shirley** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:08 pm

Blimey Stoney - speechless!!

Wombat · Post: # 35207Post **Wombat** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:21 am

Shirlz2005 wrote:Blimey Stoney - speechless!!

YOU'RE SPEECHLESS?..............................I cant swim........

baldowrie · Post: # 35225Post **baldowrie** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:09 am

start building an ark wombat!

Wombat · Post: # 35226Post **Wombat** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:14 am

What's a cubit? Got any gopher wood?

This is all getting too stressfull

Nev

Stonehead · Post: # 35227Post **Stonehead** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:26 am

Wombat wrote:What's a cubit? Got any gopher wood?

This is all getting too stressfull

Nev

We'll make it easy for you - lilo, footpump and bearded woman to inflate it!

hedgewizard · Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:38 am

Interesting, but no more than a pretty project I'm afraid.

Estimates vary, but from what I read if ALL the ice caps melted sea level would only rise by around 80m, and since Antarctica sits at around -37C this is unlikely.

Sadly, even a very modest rise in sea levels will flood out most of the world's cities, since they usually lie in river deltas or tidal basins. And where are all those people going to try to go? My chicken house has space for one more chook, and that's it. Sorry.

Andy Hamilton · Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:18 pm

I have been making searious plans for what to do if the sh*t really does hit the fan. I decided that when I finally get on the property ladder it will have to be a place that is pretty far above sea level now for me to even consider buying it. I am not sure about staying in England as worse case senario we will be in an ice age at this latitude. - This totally rules out Scotland as it will be uninhabitable.

The southern hemisphere looks like it will be the least effected by climate change, perhaps not for sea levels but certainly for chance of temperatures plumiting. It makes Tasmania look like a possibility.

Boots · Post: # 36501Post **Boots** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:47 pm

Whatchoo talkin 'bout Andy?

Tassie is our Scotland...

Andy Hamilton · Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:59 pm

Boots wrote:Whatchoo talkin 'bout Andy?

Tassie is our Scotland...

ah, well in that case perhaps I will have to rethink.

PurpleDragon · Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:27 pm

Andy Hamilton wrote:I have been making searious plans for what to do if the sh*t really does hit the fan. I decided that when I finally get on the property ladder it will have to be a place that is pretty far above sea level now for me to even consider buying it. I am not sure about staying in England as worse case senario we will be in an ice age at this latitude. - This totally rules out Scotland as it will be uninhabitable.

Well, we aren't worried. We used to live right beside the River Forth, and we really want out of that (not least because Grangemouth Oil Refinery was across the water). However, depending on which projected-scenario thing you look at, we are either under water or fine. A lot depends on the Gulf Stream, and how it will affect the temperture when/if it moves/disappears.

Andy Hamilton · Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:33 pm

I am not worried imediately, but when I do buy property I want it to be somewhere that I can stay for the rest of my life. I am 32 now and I expect to live at the very least another 30 years. This would mean that one of the scenario will be more likely to be happening by 2030, I would want a good home in a protected spot by then.

There is a chance that there will be a natural occurance of the suns temperature going down for a few years at some point in the next 3 decades. This would buy us time to slow down some of the climate change that is happening and we might be ok. Only time will tell.