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Remember the “secret Pentagon report” on global warming from a few years back? The secret report that wasn’t secret? Here’s one of the report’s predictions, as understood by Britain’s Observer newspaper:
As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions.
That was written four years ago – before the Great Upheaval of ’05. Caused by the rising.
UPDATE. Those rising seas sure are upheaveling.
It was a secret to the Observer. They just found out about it.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 25 at 02:28 PM • permalink
Well, it is kind of true – their world (filled with starving radioactive rioters wading through rubble-strewn shattered cities) is falling apart. All that is left are people going about their lives driving to work, watching plasma screen TVs and being annoyed of the Indian cricket team.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 02 25 at 03:30 PM • permalink
“by the Indian cricket team”, not “of”.
By the way, what does the ‘Preview’ button do?
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 02 25 at 03:33 PM • permalink
You have to feel sorry for the Warmenistas Change-nistas, they have declared to all powerful mother Gaia their readiness to sacrifice millions (people, that is – Trillions of dollars); but the finicky diety is vexingly determined not to rain fire and brimstone upon us.
It was so much easier hoodwinking the Lumpenproleteriat.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 02 25 at 03:48 PM • permalink
#7 You have to feel sorry for the Warmenistas Change-nistas, they have declared to all powerful mother Gaia their readiness to sacrifice millions (people, that is – Trillions of dollars); but the finicky diety is vexingly determined not to rain fire and brimstone upon us.
Just because its not happening doesn’t mean you can’t see it.
Damn. There goes all my investments on beach front properties in Idaho.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 25 at 04:10 PM • permalink
By the way, what does the ‘Preview’ button do?
The Preview button is there to
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 02 25 at 04:26 PM • permalink
stop us making silly mistakes.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 02 25 at 04:27 PM • permalink
#1 – The whole of Perth out to the hills would be just a few metres above sea level, but my house ain’t a houseboat yet.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 25 at 04:50 PM • permalink
So the beach should have gotten to my house three years ago? I blame science for making me drive there and widening my carbon flip-flop print.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 02 25 at 05:02 PM • permalink
Yes, if only we’d listened. This hasn’t taken long.
Then there’s this vanity fair.
Oh joy of joys! It looks like it’s back to the future 1972 style. There will be many more instalments to come.
- Just a few years ago some women protested with signs that Adelaide’s sea would swamp its airport to 20 feet by 2025. It meant that the sea level would need to rise about 6 inches a year.
They got headlines.
The ABC’s Science guru Robin Williams was caught out by Andrew Bolt believing the same absurdity is ‘possible’, with his notorious ‘100 metres’ claim this century.Truth has taken a long holiday in/out of Australia.
Also on gerbil warming, Australia’s new inner city agriculture minister is surprised that young farmers are cynical about the new religion. What is more surprising is that Burke is surprised. Young farmers also didn’t believe in Kevin Rudd, which is why we have an agriculture minister who hadn’t seen a farm until a few weeks ago. The only farmer in the Labor party, Gavon O’Connor, was dumped for a union official, Richard Marles, before the last election.
Florida’s still not underwater! Excuse me, I need to go outside and rev my car engine. If we’d all work together, we could still melt the polar ice caps! Go go go go go!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 25 at 08:50 PM • permalink
Yeah, well… I suppose those sea levels are sure to rise once the Northern Hemisphere’s record snowfall begins to melt.
Climate change!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 25 at 09:01 PM • permalink
All that gorebels worming rained a big-ass hole in my building this weekend…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 25 at 09:08 PM • permalink
Must be that 1970s bugbear: acid rain.
=^(
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 25 at 09:27 PM • permalink
#13, Swinnish, I came across a wonderful page a while back where you could see the effects of various rises in Sea level.
I need about 20m at my joint for some nice beach front, and I’m only 5km from the cbd.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 26 at 02:29 AM • permalink
- Great link, wiz.
A 14m rise will hardly get the Swan to the end of my street, much less bring Scarborough beach to my front door.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 26 at 05:46 AM • permalink
Heck, the only chance I’d have is for riverfront property at 14m. And that’s very remote.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2008 02 26 at 01:02 PM • permalink
- Okay, that’s weird.
Wasn’t working last night at all.
Working only about 50% the night before.
Doesn’t work at all w/ Mickeysoft Exploder.
This would be a good time to have some stuff to say, but …Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 02 27 at 09:54 PM • permalink
Still high and dry in Tucson.
Howzit by youse?