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My Bondi Junction compound is safe even if subject to fourteen metres of Goreflood. Double Bay refugees are warned to stay away; local militias have little tolerance for the soggy.
The Korean restaurants in Campsie are safe too according to the map
And so is the Catmeat Sheikh’s mosque
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 03 20 at 10:38 AM • permalinkAnd you call yourself an evil capitalist conservative!
You shouldn’t be sitting on your hill snickering, you should be tracking down every idiot who ever bought a carbon credit and getting them to invest in your Uphill Marina, Ltd., project…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 20 at 10:39 AM • permalinkDamn it, even a 14+ m Goreflood doesn’t bring the beach significantly closer to my location. So much for selling the house as oceanfront property.
Sort of OT: Manufacturing a Toyota Pious torments Mother Gaia more than building a Hummer
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 03 20 at 10:49 AM • permalinkCrap!
Even a 14 meter rise won’t clean out the sewer that is Washington D.C.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 03 20 at 11:44 AM • permalinkIt won’t even get rid of Orlando, though Miami will need more boats.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 20 at 12:20 PM • permalinkNot totally O/T - one of the regulars round these parts is headline news at NRO.
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 20 at 01:05 PM • permalinkGeesh, I need a good 20m before I have to put on my waders. Keep driving those cars, folks!
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 03 20 at 03:10 PM • permalinkTotally lost the East Village in Manhattan, and much of Greenwich Village. No more performance artists then - assuming they’ll just stand still as the waters slowly close over their heads, which I’m sure they can get a grant for.
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2007 03 20 at 03:16 PM • permalink#10 At least my taxes would go towards some good cause.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 03 20 at 03:55 PM • permalinkBaby I live in Ohio. The ocean could rise 100 meters and it wouldn’t touch me. Since that’s the case, I want to burn Global Warming brand gasoline in my 1970 Monte Carlo at the 1972 rate of 28 cents a gallon. As an American, I think it’s my god given right.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 20 at 05:22 PM • permalink1st: We need to form an international emergency committee to develop the protocol for developing the plan to develop the ability to cover all our polar ice sheets under sufficient styrofoam to insulate them against meltage.
2nd: We need to form another international emergency committee to develop the protocol for developing the plan to develop the ability to build sufficient refrigeration at each earth pole and over each major glacier sufficient to counter any and all warmenizing.
3rd: We need to form another international emergency committee to develop the protocol for developing the plan to develop the ability to build really really big sponges sufficient to soak up any excess oceanage.
To ensure that these international emergency committees develop the protocol for developing the plan to develop the ability to work in a sufficiently cooperative manner, we need to form another international emergency committee to develop the protocol for developing the plan for developing a new global governance scam…I mean, scheme.
I have to say I’m rather disappointed with the resulting carnage from a 14 meter rise in Gore briny. For some reason I was envisioning something like “Waterworld”, maybe if it arrived tsunami like it might meet my media hyped expectations.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 20 at 06:39 PM • permalinkLoosely related (well, it’s got an environmental theme): “Making bears into humans has to stop as soon as possible”
You see, some of our tender-hearted animal activists would rather see popular baby polar bear Knut killed instead of raised on a bottle after being rejected by his mother.
Right on, guys.
On topic, I live in one of those reclaimed
swampswetlands. Will have to convert the house to a yellow submarine way before the century’s out.Tim, what has happened to the ‘Jungo’? You can’t park anywhere, parking on the street costs more than Causeway Bay (the chief shopping district) in HK, Westfield has attracted Double-Bay-ites and other chattering classes like moths to a flame, or in this case yuppies to a Ralph Lauren shop. The only decent pub left if the Nelson.
Be smug with your impending dryness Tim, the Junction is losing its charm.
Those greenies in Marrickville will have to learn to swim. In my part of Sydney, however, I look forward to a shorter walk to the banks of the Georges River.
Posted by Angela Bell on 2007 03 20 at 07:44 PM • permalink“Making bears into humans has to stop as soon as possible”
Well, of course the bear has to die. Don’t you see? He’s a traitor to the animal world.
Next they’ll ban pets, because domesticated animals are an abomination. Soon people and animals will have absolutely no contact with each other, humanity will lose touch with the natural world, and one day will notice all this… this stuff all over the place, growing wild and chaotic, and the diktat will go out: clear off the vermin that is “nature” from the earth, and pave it with nice, antiseptic plastic.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 20 at 07:46 PM • permalinkWhen you look at the map you realise it is just a computer adding blue to all of those places near the sea that are less then 14 metres above it. What it doesn’t show is the impact on rivers and thus further inland areas. There are many river systems that would create lakes with a 14 metre rise. In addition a 14 metre rise on average fails to register the impact of “king tides” etc. Not that its ever going to happen but if proper examination of a 14 metre rise were done it would make Al Gore and his people look like the cartoon figures they really are as they quote these ridiculous figures.
Here in Ashfield, the sluggish creek that’s called Cook’s River will turn into a picturesque bay - and the flooding of the airport means no more aircraft noise!
Posted by David Morgan on 2007 03 20 at 08:12 PM • permalinkSydney has survived far worse - back in 1980 giant cicadas ate Five Dock.
Posted by David Morgan on 2007 03 20 at 08:34 PM • permalinkOT but worthy… Our Education, Their Politics
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 20 at 09:06 PM • permalinkAn artist’s impression of Tim’s place following global warming
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 20 at 09:16 PM • permalinkIf only we had the technology to build some kind of large physical structures that a dutch boy could stick his finger in to save people from this impending wetness.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 03 20 at 11:22 PM • permalinkCol.—Doesn’t work anymore. The last time the Dutch Boy tried it Rosie O’Donnell broke his nose…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 20 at 11:29 PM • permalink#56 If it did negative numbers, someone (not me) could work out the sea level producing the longest total coastline, so that as many people as possible could have waterfronts.
I can start off the optimisation process: It’s somewhere between no water at all (zero coastline) and water all the way up to the top of Mt Everest (also zero coastline).
Whacko the diddlio, I’m going to have Moreton Bay at the bottom of my front yard!
No more fuming in peak hour traffic, I’ll be able to shoot straight over the bay in my V8 cetacean.
Hopefully there’ll be a population cull in force by then as well, so I can snipe at surfies lolling around my letterbox.
Oops, bad link- 7 metres would be just peachy; I could get to Ballymore without swimming, but could toddle off to the pub in a pedalo, and do a Freddy on the way home.
About the only drawback I can see is the sort of neighbours that’re likely to move in to the area.
O/T again (sorry)
But the green left weekly website has adds on it by the Eeeevil Google multinational. Look aboyt 1/2 way down the page on the left hand side.
One of those adds is a position. In Iraq. as a Geologist. With Shell oil.Bwahahahahah, tools.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 21 at 02:24 AM • permalinkOT ALERT
sky news surrender in iraq pollvote early vote often
http://www.skynews.com.au/index.asp
Posted by Astonished on 2007 03 21 at 05:17 AM • permalink#62 - 55% voting No at the moment. Keep up the good work, chaps - hold the line!
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 21 at 05:35 AM • permalinkI’ve just been unfortunate enough to watch George Negus and a couple of Climate Fascists on Dateline. The man is getting more and more loopy as he gets older.
One presumes that he was always a big lefty. It wasn’t obvious when he was on 60 Minutes. As the old saying goes, though, the older we get the more like ourselves we become.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 03 21 at 06:25 AM • permalinkcool- at 9 metres i’m absolute beachfront instead of two blocks back. too bad I’m not a believer.
(at 10 metres it’s arktime)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 21 at 07:01 AM • permalinkOT but still globally warmed -
Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic airlines is rumoured to be looking a major fleet review to fit with the great man’s cleaner, greener business ethic. Out of favour are the four-engine Airbus A380 super jumbo and its smaller sister, the A340-600. In their place the rumours say Virgin Atlantic will buy two-engine Boeing 777s and 787s. If it comes to pass, Kyoto signatories France and Germany will be losing billions of dollars of business to the non-signing US - on environmental grounds. Ironic.
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