BobGiles
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therefore we should PREY that we look like POLA BEARS.
When the Antartica melts completely in 20 years time.
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Evadne
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CLIFF DIDN\'T SAY \"2000 metres\"
Hi Cliff,
sorry if it caused you grief, anyone who read the original answer I wrote and took it seriously ... well, I couldn't remember the right number so I put in something so rediculously large that no intelligent reader could possibly mistake it for the truth. Oh well, you live and learn. There must be several people out there genuily worrying about the imminent influx of killer penguins as well. Maybe I ought to go into Nigerian banking? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Dave
Hi Cliff,
sorry if it caused you grief, anyone who read the original answer I wrote and took it seriously ... well, I couldn't remember the right number so I put in something so rediculously large that no intelligent reader could possibly mistake it for the truth. Oh well, you live and learn. There must be several people out there genuily worrying about the imminent influx of killer penguins as well. Maybe I ought to go into Nigerian banking? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Dave
Twister_Ken
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Re: CLIFF DIDN\'T SAY \"2000 metres\"
>There must be several people out there genuily worrying about the imminent influx of killer penguins as well.<
Sugar, I've just ordered a pair of armoured knee pads from Penguin Protection Plc.
>There must be several people out there genuily worrying about the imminent influx of killer penguins as well.<
Sugar, I've just ordered a pair of armoured knee pads from Penguin Protection Plc.
jimi
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Superstrath
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Re: If I interpret your piccy.....
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Well if it's coming that far, we can hope that a bit more melts and the Loudon Hill Inn can open a marina.
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Well if it's coming that far, we can hope that a bit more melts and the Loudon Hill Inn can open a marina.
jimi
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Re: If I interpret your piccy.....
Even better if LOudon Hill is the Rockall of the Ayrshire Ocean
Even better if LOudon Hill is the Rockall of the Ayrshire Ocean
Superstrath
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Re: If I interpret your piccy.....
A sail round Loudon Hill. You'd have to watch you didn't get your anchor fankled up in that funny new Wallace Monument they've put there.
Excellent. This is so exciting, I've left my car running outside to help speed things along a bit.
A sail round Loudon Hill. You'd have to watch you didn't get your anchor fankled up in that funny new Wallace Monument they've put there.
Excellent. This is so exciting, I've left my car running outside to help speed things along a bit.
jimi
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Re: If I interpret your piccy.....
And what would happen to Arran ... a few better anchorages I suspect!
And what would happen to Arran ... a few better anchorages I suspect!
Superstrath
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Re: If I interpret your piccy.....
OK, I'll bite. You could sail Glen Rosa up Glen Rosa.
There.
OK, I'll bite. You could sail Glen Rosa up Glen Rosa.
There.
AOWYN
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The melting of Arctic ice-cap would have no impact on sea levels as ice is less dense than water, so if only the floating ice in the world melted the sea level would actually go down. The sea level rise comes from the ice which is resting on land melting and adding to the amount of water out there.
I know that this is rather hypothetical as all ice will melt if the global temperature rises, but for many years I have wondered why the basic school physics lesson about ice floating has been forgotten by so many "experts" in the media. Of course, the one thing about common sense is that it isn't!!
Cheers
I know that this is rather hypothetical as all ice will melt if the global temperature rises, but for many years I have wondered why the basic school physics lesson about ice floating has been forgotten by so many "experts" in the media. Of course, the one thing about common sense is that it isn't!!
Cheers
jimi
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Thiunk there are 3 factors
1) Melt of land based ice
2) expansion of water as it warms
3)Land on which ice was lying rising (cos lesss weight on it) leading to land falling elsewhere cosequential strees on tectonic plate joints leading to massive volcanic activity, leading to another ice age ...
ah well we're all doomed .. one way or the other!
1) Melt of land based ice
2) expansion of water as it warms
3)Land on which ice was lying rising (cos lesss weight on it) leading to land falling elsewhere cosequential strees on tectonic plate joints leading to massive volcanic activity, leading to another ice age ...
ah well we're all doomed .. one way or the other!
BrendanS
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the calculations on sea level rise have all been made on 'grounded' ice, not floating ice.
pugwash
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Re: More like 200m at most
The danger of generating hype with ridiculous false information (as The Independent has been doing lately) is that attention is diverted to the wrong issues. If global warming turns out to be modest and due to non-human factors such as sun radiation, as many scientists expect, and if sea levels are not rising much faster than they are already (seven inches a century for a long time now) then we should be looking at other more important factors that threaten our planet environment, such as toxic pollution of the sea. A case in point is Kyoto. It was never going to work and Blair effectively withdrew from it last week. Now we can concentrate (with the Americans, Chinese, Australians etc) on technological measures that should really work, such as new energy sources for transport and emission-less power stations. Kyoto was political window-dressing and nothing more. We can now get on with being effective.
The danger of generating hype with ridiculous false information (as The Independent has been doing lately) is that attention is diverted to the wrong issues. If global warming turns out to be modest and due to non-human factors such as sun radiation, as many scientists expect, and if sea levels are not rising much faster than they are already (seven inches a century for a long time now) then we should be looking at other more important factors that threaten our planet environment, such as toxic pollution of the sea. A case in point is Kyoto. It was never going to work and Blair effectively withdrew from it last week. Now we can concentrate (with the Americans, Chinese, Australians etc) on technological measures that should really work, such as new energy sources for transport and emission-less power stations. Kyoto was political window-dressing and nothing more. We can now get on with being effective.
jimi
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Re: More like 200m at most
Until this govt get on with a nuclear power generation project, they cannot be taken seriously. Its the only realist option.
Until this govt get on with a nuclear power generation project, they cannot be taken seriously. Its the only realist option.
cliff
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Re: More like 200m at most
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Until this govt get on with a nuclear power generation project, they cannot be taken seriously. Its the only realist option.
[/ QUOTE ]Quite agree, Canary wharf NPP, Wimbeldon NPP,Cowes NPP, Southampton NPP, Lymington NPP, Portsmouth NPP, Falmouth NPP. Just keep them in the south, we can always take the power up north.
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"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity"
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Until this govt get on with a nuclear power generation project, they cannot be taken seriously. Its the only realist option.
[/ QUOTE ]Quite agree, Canary wharf NPP, Wimbeldon NPP,Cowes NPP, Southampton NPP, Lymington NPP, Portsmouth NPP, Falmouth NPP. Just keep them in the south, we can always take the power up north.
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pugwash
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Re: More like 200m at most
Oh no you can't. One of the big problems for windmills in Scotland is that the transmission links with the market in middle England are small and already full up, and who's going to approve several parallel lines of new pylons? So if you mean Brum and Mcr you're on safe ground but if you mean Glasgow, better build your own nuclear power station. You and Jimi are right, though. Nuclear is the only sane option and greens should have their heads examined for opposing it.
Oh no you can't. One of the big problems for windmills in Scotland is that the transmission links with the market in middle England are small and already full up, and who's going to approve several parallel lines of new pylons? So if you mean Brum and Mcr you're on safe ground but if you mean Glasgow, better build your own nuclear power station. You and Jimi are right, though. Nuclear is the only sane option and greens should have their heads examined for opposing it.
