Wednesday, May 15, 2013

London flooded by three feet of water!!! (well not quite)

Yes, the headline was London flooded by three feet of water!  The truth was a little less dramatic however.
The story is referring to a recent report that suggests sea levels could rise by three feet as a result of melting ice, what it fails to mention though is that the report is based on the old flawed climate model ( remember the one that said sea levels would have risen 30 feet by now)   Secondly it fails to mention that there's only a 1 in 20 chance of it happening even with that model.  And Thirdly most climate scientists now agree we're actually entering a cooling phase not a warming  phase, so even less lightly.
Lastly it's not due until around the turn of the century, 87 years away, so London has a bit of time (say 40 years) to raise the flood defences a bit just in case.

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