Tim Worstall

Rising Sea Levels

Not a surprise really:

It’s hard not to feel a flicker of worry that the government is perhaps
too resigned to climate change. Depressingly, I noticed that the Defra
flood management policy allows for an annual 4.5mm rise in sea levels
due to climate change – a figure which, it turns out, dates all the way
back to the Ministry for Agriculture in 1990.

Half opf that sea level rise is because the south east of the UK is sinking, not because sea levels are rising. The other half has been going on for a great deal longer than the industrial age. Looks like MinAg actually got it right really: and mitigation wouldn’t do much to stop the sinking now, would it?

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5 responses

  1. Kit Avatar
    Kit

    Could we use the rising levels of obesity to our advantage? If all the obese moved to Scotland and jumped.

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  2. sanbikinoriaon Avatar
    sanbikinoriaon

    Fat is less dense than water: use them as buoyancy aids for the southeast.

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  3. ceri Avatar
    ceri

    Swimming may aid weightloss

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  4. Mark Wadsworth Avatar
    Mark Wadsworth

    Yup, the south east is sinking, but as fast as 2mm a year? I suppose it’s possible (2 metres over a millenium).

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  5. JuliaM Avatar
    JuliaM

    “…I noticed that the Defra flood management policy allows for an annual 4.5mm rise in sea levels…”
    I just love the word ‘allows’ in there. As if they could really do something to prevent it (such as…?) but have just decided to allow the geographical forces to have their way, on a trial period, of course…

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