Move Over Studland: Here Comes the Thames

[Thistle]

Climate Change Is Affecting The River Thames, According To This New Report

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[NormanS]

It's a seldom reported fact that while Scotland is still rising after the weight of ice has been removed in the 10,000 years since the last Ice Age, the South of England is sinking. It has little or nothing to do with "rising sea levels". If the sea level was rising, it would rise evenly. Get used to it and get taller wellies. ?

 

[rotrax]

Seahorses were spotted and reported by maitenance divers at Tilbury Docks years ago.

Lets see them try to stop tying up there........................................

 

[Concerto]

Well you should not enter the River Thames either as 3 varieties of shark have been found and can grow to nearly 2 meters long.
Venomous sharks discovered in the River Thames
The Greater Thames Shark Project

 

[chrishscorp]

Seahorses were spotted and reported by maitenance divers at Tilbury Docks years ago.

Lets see them try to stop tying up there........................................

Im very tempted to write to the twits at Natural England and ask them what action they propose to take........

 

[Paulg25]

Climate Change Is Affecting The River Thames, According To This New Report

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First spotted in 2007.

 

[Greemble]

If the sea level was rising, it would rise evenly.

if the oceans were a garden pond, that might be the case.
However, they are not ponds and there are lots of different and varying effects that mean sea level rise is far from even

 

[NormanS]

if the oceans were a garden pond, that might be the case.
However, they are not ponds and there are lots of different and varying effects that mean sea level rise is far from even

Yawn. ? That doesn't alter the fact that while Scotland is rising, giving the impression that the sea level is falling, the South of England is slowly sinking, giving the opposite effect. Yer doomed a tell ye, doomed. ?

 

[Greemble]

Yawn. ? That doesn't alter the fact that while Scotland is rising, giving the impression that the sea level is falling, the South of England is slowly sinking, giving the opposite effect. Yer doomed a tell ye, doomed. ?

While I'm aware that Scotland us still on the rise, I'm not aware of any studies that show the south of England to be dropping.

I am rather intrigued
- Could you give any references to this, please?

 

[penfold]

The north of the UK is rebounding from the weight of the icecap that bore down on it during the last ice age; in the absence of the countless millions of tonnes of ice it is slowly rising. A corollary of that is the south east of england is supposed to be sinking somewhat.

 

[dankilb]

But unlike the seahorses, haven’t we always known about the post-glacial rebound? I was taught about it at school.

 

[NormanS]

While I'm aware that Scotland us still on the rise, I'm not aware of any studies that show the south of England to be dropping.

I am rather intrigued
- Could you give any references to this, please?

Google is your friend. There are innumerable references to Glacial Rebound/Uplift on the internet. Look it up.

 

[mjcoon]

The north of the UK is rebounding from the weight of the icecap that bore down on it during the last ice age; in the absence of the countless millions of tonnes of ice it is slowly rising. A corollary of that is the south east of england is supposed to be sinking somewhat.

Corollary thrombosis? Is there supposed to be a pivot in the Midlands? And why SE England? Is the SW doing its own thing?

 

[mjcoon]

Google is your friend. There are innumerable references to Glacial Rebound/Uplift on the internet. Look it up.

Uplift is not the same as dropping!

 

[Praxinoscope]

Well you should not enter the River Thames either as 3 varieties of shark have been found and can grow to nearly 2 meters long.
Venomous sharks discovered in the River Thames
The Greater Thames Shark Project

This fails to mention the various forms of shark and numerous rather dubious creatures that inhabit the Palace of Westminster

 

[Stemar]

This fails to mention the various forms of shark and numerous rather dubious creatures that inhabit the Palace of Westminster

It did cross my mind to wonder if they weren't referring to the ones to be found in the vicinity of Westminster Bridge. I've heard them called a lot of things, but never venomous sharks before.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Uplift is not the same as dropping!

Uplift in one place will give rise to depression elsewhere. It's to do with the rheology of the underlying rocks.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

And incidentally, sea-level rise as documented is adjusted for isostatic effects.

 

[Bodach na mara]

This uprise due to the release of the weight of glaciers over the north of Britain has always puzzled me. The glaciation extended a lot further south even than Britain. I have seen terminal moraine just north of Verona. So why should Scotland be rising and not the whole of the UK?

 

[Greemble]

This uprise due to the release of the weight of glaciers over the north of Britain has always puzzled me. The glaciation extended a lot further south even than Britain. I have seen terminal moraine just north of Verona. So why should Scotland be rising and not the whole of the UK?

I'm under the impression (if my memory servers correctly - I could be wrong), that the ice from which Scotland is recovering (the last Ice Age) only went as far south as the northern part of England, thinning out by the time it got that far.

Google is your friend. There are innumerable references to Glacial Rebound/Uplift on the internet. Look it up.

I didn't dispute the uplift...