news.bbc.co.uk — London is sinking by 1-2 mm per year and with sea levels inexorably rising - faces a double whammy impact from global warming. Now studies have mapped how fast the sinking is happening and which areas are most at risk of increasing flood threats from the river and sea surges.
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acdcfanbillJul 16, 2007
I submit to you, Split Second, starring Rutger Hauer. <a class="user" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105459/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105459/</a>"In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him."It's a great little B Sci Fi gem. :)
sawtaJul 16, 2007
Its of no consern when you think about it. The moon is moving away from the earth at such a huge rate every year that it seems more likely that that will kill every living thing on earth, even before global warming..
davidjunitJul 16, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png</a>Read it and weep, buddy. Average temperatures are rising an average of .02 degrees Celsius a year. I wouldn't be making jokes if I were you. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
evildoughboy75Jul 16, 2007
Chuck Norris could fix the rising waters with a roundhouse kick.
snowball69Jul 16, 2007
The gates protect against the tidal surges of the Thames which most people by now should be aware is a tidal river - and not generally rising sea levels.
snowball69Jul 16, 2007
It was unstable due to sinking wasn't it? I'm sure the last Labour governement flogged it to some Yank like everything they're selling off now to the highest bidder - they rebuilt it somewhere in a remote US desert. (NB Tower Bridge is NOT London Bridge!) <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge</a>Actually there's a better and more detailed article on how the bridge was unstable here - <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge#Old_London_Bridge">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge#Old_London_Bridge</a><a class="user" href="http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm">http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm</a> (London Bridge is now in Arizona!!)
snowball69Jul 16, 2007
"Dykes", Shirley?
snowball69Jul 16, 2007
Especially as they were designed and built to specifically handle the Thames tidal-surges and NOT the imaginary theory of Anthopogenic Global Warming and long-established and understood sinking of The City into the silt.