Friday, May 23, 2008
Ever wonder whether HPC will become just a molehill next to a giant mountain?
BBC News: Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice
It's off-topic (ish). But then posts often get sidetracked by climate-change discussion, so why not start a post with climate change? Worth stopping to think that if the scientists are actually onto something, then HPC could become a small detail in the history of what happens in our world over the next few years. Maybe it's just a flavour-of-the-month theme, but it is worth watching the i-player...
Posted by doom&gloom @ 11:51 PM (535 views) Add Comment
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1. titaniccaptain said...
Does that mean that houses close to the coast will devalue?
2. gone-to-colombia said...
Interesting point titanic C, I am suprised that this has not been taken into consideration by buyers up till now.
I think they still feel that the sea rises will take many decades to happen. But that's not the point. The houses at risk will become valueless when the insurance companies wont insure them and therefore mortgages will not be available. That day is not so far off.
3. Digbypenguin said...
Arctic Ice melt doesn't cause sea levels to rise. I think more people should be worrying about flood plains - those nice (!) new houses are often built on floodable land. I'm waiting until I can afford a House on a Hill.
4. Davip said...
Yes, worrying indeed, if not totally surprising from an Earth scientist's perspective. For all their concern about the equititability of house prices many on here are only concerned with personal gain (e.g., the 'sell to rent' crowd) and the economics of personal consumption (the cost of petrol for their cars); but few really appreciate the magnitude of the real tsunami to come that will be anything other than economic. For every meatball crowing about "eco-nuts" the smart money is laying in the corned-beef...
5. Cristiano Barbaro said...
The truest sentence the article:
"Although its maximum extent last winter was slightly greater than the year before, it was still below the long-term average. "
I for one do not believe in man made global warming, but I do believe that the earth is entering a cooling period due to lesser solar spot activity. That is why last winter we had record cold temperatures around the world, and the actual ice caps increased in size. As far as I know they have only been monitoring the ice cap extention since around 1972, so the "long term averages" is stretching the truth quite a lot to me.
Another thing... isn't it odd that when I do a google search for ice cap satellite pictures, i only find old stuff, or material supporting the environmentalist fanatics? I'm not blaming google here for censorship, but just like one can use maps.google to get a picture of any place, or city, I just wanted to see for myself this winter a live satellite photo of the icecaps... but I could not get one. Maybe I did not enter the correct search parameters...
6. Impressed said...
I am reminded of a front page article in the Birmingham Evening Mail. The banner was "Birmingham Sur Mer" and explained how if the sea level rises to the predicted worse case scenario level then most of England will be under the sea and Birmingham will become the new capital and a coastal resort. So why not snap up a few of those new build beachfront apartments by the Bullring before the prices shoot through the roof, you'd be mad not to.
7. indiablue19 said...
Here you go. Plan ahead:
http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=54.0142,-6.5808&z=10&m=12
8. Davip said...
CB -- your disbelief in man-made global warming does not mean that it is not happening. Are you an ostrich farmer? Digby -- Arctic ice melt does indeed not raise sea levels, but the uniformity of the melt in terms of temperature clearly means that once Arctic ice is melting so too are the Antarctic and Greenland ices. When these shelves reach their basal melting threshold you will know about it, particularly if your 'house on a hill' is within 150 ft of msl. Depressing opinions on a prospect that should concern us all...