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The BBC reports:
UN experts are meeting to determine the risks which climate change poses to some of the world’s special places.
The UN’s cultural and scientific wing Unesco says climate change threatens World Heritage Sites such as the Great Barrier Reef and ...
Wait for it ...
... the Tower of London.
Right. Here’s the Tower 600 years ago:
And here it is today:
Note the Thames’ terrifying rise. It’s practically swamping the joint! Curse you, Jeremy Clarkson.
UPDATE. Reader dipole nominates other post-flood attractions:
Utzon Aquarium, Sydney
The Eiffel Lighthouse, Paris
The Great Seawall of China
World’s Largest Paddlewheel, London
Rod Laver Olympic Pool, MelbourneAny more candidates for the Seven Wonders of Global Warming?
Don’t be surprised if they next use the pyramids to prove global warming. Deny, yes try denying, that the pyramids have eroded since being erected in 2600 BC. 90% of it since Chimpy Bushitler came to office.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 16 at 06:58 AM • permalink#2, Fun to see Piers taking on a crowd of visibly dangerous singing, smiling, clappy exploiters of free speech single-handed, but…“our very own superhero”?
Probably best to stick to Karl Rove and the Boltster on that one.
There’s no way the Ack could generate enough lift to get his girthly mass airborne, and superheros aren’t so super when they have to take a taxi.
He did scatter those dread-heads willy-nilly, but only by falling into them.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 07:40 AM • permalinkI blame certain peoples lake shifting exploits for this. (You know who you are)
It appears people were much taller back then as well.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 03 16 at 07:43 AM • permalinkBTW nice retrospective touch-up job on the older version, wronwright.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 16 at 07:49 AM • permalinkBritish history does provide a useful climate change indicator over the last two millenia.
The Romans grew grapes in England, but it was too cold to grow them in the Dark Ages. Grapes were flourishing again by the 12th century and in Henry VIII’s time there were hundreds of acres of grapes growing. The following little ice age which lasted until the middle of the 19th Century all but killed off English viticulture.
Grapes in the south of England have made a bit of a recovery since WWII, but you’re going to do your dough if you start buying up land around Blackpool in the hope that global warming will soon turn it into the Barossa.
Cheers!
O/T: I would like to proudly announce that I was the one behind the protestors inside the Condoleezza Rice address at the Conservatorium who said “dickheads” quite loudly when they started. (You can see me in the red tie and linen coat to the right behind the male protestors).
Once they were removed, Dr Rice made a joke and moved on.
The UN should have this global warming whatsit brought before the security council. That way, it could be scolded and lecutred on the badness of aligning with that eveel GW Bush = Hitler! and trying to drown all the nice things with their Blood for Oil!! eveelnesses.
Or, I know, we’ll just have congress pass a law that outlaws global warming and create a new Dept. of Global Temperature. That should fix it.
On further review of the picture and photo, it appears that the outer wall has rotated a few degrees counter clockwise.
Also, the tower caps seem to have been squished a bit.
This is obviously a neo-con plot! There is something much more insidious than simple global warming going on!
Global warming is how the nasty eveel neo-con Bush=hitler! oil for blooders! are trying to distract us! It’s all a ruse!The World Heritage List….have you seen how many items are on that list? There are hundreds! Doesn’t it kind of lose its special status when there’s too many forests, reefs, buildings, canals, factories and breweries on there?
#9, thank you for the correction.
On Rice protest, Channel Seven at 6pm showed Dr Rice actually halting her speech when she saw the protestors get up, “Someone up there wants to say something?” They sure took their sweet time, “blood on your hands”, repeat of US protest, very unoriginal, they were then carefully led out, Rice smiled, thanked democracy and continued.
Yet, when the same footage was shown on SBS, ABC, Channel Ten, 7.30 Report, Lateline, the bit where Rice actually paused in her speech to acknowledge the protestors was gone.
Coincidence?
Rice was more than nice to Red Kerry, it was all very polite, no fireworks, no flirting, no ‘stink eye’ glare. Does she only use that in the States?
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 09:20 AM • permalink#12 I would like to proudly announce that I was the one behind the protestors inside the Condoleezza Rice address at the Conservatorium who said “dickheads” quite loudly when they started. (You can see me in the red tie and linen coat to the right behind the male protestors).—anagallis
Well, that’s nice anagallis. For my part if you check the first picture, you’ll notice a apothecarist, standing beside what appears to be a goat and a blue telephone box. That’s me and Stoop Davy Dave. And the woman in the background holding a bow and sliver of arrows—Andrea.
Please don’t ask why we’re in the picture.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 16 at 09:51 AM • permalinkWhat about the world famous dive wreck of Cheops?
Posted by StuartSkelton on 2006 03 16 at 10:01 AM • permalinkThe scenic canals of Phoenix Arizona…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 16 at 10:24 AM • permalinkPointy Isles of Giza
Kurdish Riviera
Gulf of Laos
Enjoy Tropical Bavaria’s Miles of Gray Sand Beaches
Golden Gate Causeway
Navigational Hazard of Gibraltar
Greater Barrier Reef
Amsterplunge
Macchu BeachuPosted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 10:28 AM • permalinkIn the U.S., we call that “Washington Monument Syndrome.”
Every time Reagan or Congress failed to give the National Park Service its requested, double-the-annual-inflation-rate budget increase, NPS put word out through friendly journalists that “budget cuts” would cause closure of the Washington Monument.
Letters ensued to Congress, and the bureaucrats got their gravy.
Apparently the free-money-for-researchers tap isn’t producing as much as its dependents would like.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 03 16 at 10:29 AM • permalinkHow about the rugged but scenic Rushmore Island?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 16 at 10:32 AM • permalinkRushmore Island…you mean Team America’s supersecret submarine base?
Posted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 10:37 AM • permalinkMTV Spring Break Yukon
E!‘s Wild On Irkutsk
Survivor AntarcticaPosted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 10:51 AM • permalinkP.S. If anyone from the UN wants to touch your “special place” start screaming for a policeman and try to run away. Don’t worry about hurting the UN person in trying to escape.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 03 16 at 11:00 AM • permalinkFamily Fun at Chimpy’s Seaside Beach Cabanas, Crawford Texas
Posted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 11:15 AM • permalinkThe Observation Deck, Sydney Tower
The Observation Deck, Empire State Building
The Observation Deck, Seattle’s Space Needle
The Observation Deck, Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
The Observation Deck, CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou, China
Top Carriage, The London Eye Ferris WheelPosted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 11:17 AM • permalinkAnd the ULTRA-SECRET Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Rice/Rove Apocalypse Proof Big Freeze Surviving Mega Emergency Safe Super Reinforced Bunker, Howard’s View Mountain, Tasmania.
Posted by LeftieLatteLover on 2006 03 16 at 11:24 AM • permalink18
Please don’t ask why we’re in the picture.
We’d better NOT be in the damn picture! PW swore that the stealth circuitry in this goat suit made it unphotographable. And we ALL know that Andrea doesn’t show up on photographs anyway. Or cast a shadow, for that matter.
... brrr did it just get cold in here?Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 16 at 11:39 AM • permalink26 Not a secret NOW, is it, Mr Blabbermouth?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 16 at 11:40 AM • permalinkI nominate the beautiful town of Chocolate Sauce Pennsylvania.
Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 03 16 at 11:46 AM • permalinkLuna Park…the new one they’ll have to build on the Moon when Sydney Harbor spills into the Sea of Tranquility. ...excuse me, harbour, you quaint motherland-tethered colonials.
Posted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 12:44 PM • permalinkTraitor’s Marvellous Underwater Grotto at Londonland Seaworld USA
Posted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 01:16 PM • permalinkManhattan Marine Sanctuary
U.S. Capitol Atoll
Right Whale Breeding Grounds, Dearborn, Mich.
Wright-Patterson Navy Base
Pike’s PiquePosted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 01:31 PM • permalinkBrokeback Mountain
Someone’s Beautiful Launderette
Philadelphia
That bar in “The Crying Game”
Transamerica
The BirdcagePosted by David Crawford on 2006 03 16 at 02:19 PM • permalinkUnited States of Aquatica
Great Bog
Ausplashia
Watercan-ada
The Undernetherlands
Doucheland (unter alles)Posted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 02:40 PM • permalinkThe Houston Aquadome, The Sears Snorkel, The Kansas Sea.
Posted by Major John on 2006 03 16 at 04:02 PM • permalinkFor my part if you check the first picture, you’ll notice a apothecarist, standing beside what appears to be a goat and a blue telephone box.
Yes, the blue telephone box has been your best disguise yet, wronwright.
We’d better NOT be in the damn picture! PW swore that the stealth circuitry in this goat suit made it unphotographable.
You failed to read pages 53 through 62 in the operation manual as I told you to do, didn’t you Stoop.
errrr, maybe I did? There weren’t very many pictures in that part, were there? What were those pages about?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 16 at 05:58 PM • permalinkGreat American Foreheads of Mt Rushmore
Lincoln Memorial and Jacuzzi
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 16 at 06:13 PM • permalinkBut the colorado soggy mountain high
I’ve seen it rainin’ excessively from the sky (due to global warming)
The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabye (due to global warming)
Soggy mountain high (high colorado) soggy mountain high (high colorado)Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 16 at 09:45 PM • permalinkArizona’s Grand
CanyonCanalAtlantis City, NJ
Scuba City, CAnot to mention some new products: Austin Whaler boats
In NFL news Dolphins, Vikings, Seahawks all stand pat, while Detroit (Sea Lions) Pittsburgh (Sealers) and New York (Waterjets) get name changes and floating stadiums.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 03 16 at 10:13 PM • permalinkJust think- we can also stick a gaff in Kevin Costner as well; after all, anything with gills is fair game.
Hmmmm…how does one properly refer to France apres le deluge? Some thoughts:
French Aquanesia
The German Riviera
The Mediterranean Friviera
Rainbow Warrior’s Revenge
Worth ItPosted by crittenden on 2006 03 16 at 10:34 PM • permalinkSweet shipping lane Alabama
Lord I’m coming home to you
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 16 at 10:44 PM • permalinkWrigley Marina, Chicago
The Magic Sea Fortress, Orlando
Castle Island, Edinburgh
Mohammed’s Undersea Adventure Park, MeccaPosted by Aaron - Freewill on 2006 03 16 at 10:48 PM • permalinkNot a wonder of g.w., but a photo recording the terrifying sea-level rise that threatens to obliterate Tasmania.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 03 17 at 12:26 AM • permalinkI’ve heard that the Coffs council has tendered to repaint this olive drab and attach tendrils in anticipation of this cataclysm, remarketing it as “The Big Beche de Mer”.
Stoop Davey Dave in South Australian Election???
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 17 at 03:48 AM • permalink58 PW
Why are you asking? Don’t tell me you lost the manual, too!
Well, um, you see, we were, that is, we were at Hastings for what subjectively SEEMED like a long time, due to the loop-back requirements involved in the disappear / reappear stunts, and then with the multiple-wronwright gag, not the mention the Andrea- shoots- and- catches- own- arrow trick, all designed to impress the Saxons. So of course somebody had to be IN the Tardis the whole time. So guess who got “volunteered.” So naturally for everybody else in the landing party, it’s like half-a-day’s outing in the lovely Dark Ages, but for yours truly, it was more like half a week. With, of course, no rations on hand. For which I blame McEnroe unless he’s reading this in which case I blame Wronwright. Soooo aaaaaanywaaaay, that manual, it, um, it really hit the spot. Sir. I requisitioned a replacement, but it hasn’t arrived yet.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 17 at 01:05 PM • permalink81 I think young Zorba lent a certain gravitas to the proceedings, don’t you? Despite being just a kid?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 17 at 01:10 PM • permalinkStoop Davy Dave — It’s a time-travel manual. If you had bothered to read it before chowing down, you would have noticed that when you order it, it will have been delivered ten minutes ago. You probably ate it two or three times.
And why weren’t you carrying your RWDB Evil Minion emergency rations (a six-pack of Slim Jims and a tin of Red Man chaw) as per SOP?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 18 at 12:56 PM • permalink85 Come to think of it, it DID hit the spot better than I expected. I thought it was just high-fiber paper, but maybe your explanation is more sensible.
And those damn RWDB EMERs were worthless, WORTHLESS I tell you. Unsmokable, that is. I used up four lighters trying to keep those things lit, and ended up throwing them away!
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 20 at 01:15 PM • permalink
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O/T Truth is stranger than fiction…A vicious gaggle of the usual suspects (protesters) hell bent on laying their hands on Condie and tearing her to shreds-was cowed into shrieking,snivelling hysterical submission today by SUPER PIERS -yes our very own super hero.
Lowering his head he Rugby tackled the blighters,scattering them willy nilly..
O Piers action man, a million thanks from us.