wooo apparently the UK is getting thinner

At what? Drowning?

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Oh but that is true . I went on an enviromental course the other week and part of it was showing how the sea levels are rising and where they propose a land fill site is going to be cover by the sea in the next 50 years!! very scary

of course take the titanic for instance were so cool at drowning we made a film about it

I know it's true Russ. Some stats predict about 50 million people will need to be relocated in the next 10 to 20 years because of rising sea level.

Some inhabited islands are already suffering from it.


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I said at this course, isnt the world changing anyway? just look at history its always changing .They agreed but said its going at such a fast rate than every before , thats whats so worrying and the main poluting country keeps ignoring all the advice given to them. shame as it could make such a difference.

Thought you might like to read this
http://www.earthscape.org/p1/sdv01/sdv01f.html

global warmings just a conspiracy theory perpetuated by hippies

nah if sea levels do rise glasgows pretty much ****ed since the whole lowlands of scotland sit at the bottom of a "valley", luckilly i'm pretty much up land so i can sit with a cocktail and watch it take away all the scum fromt he east end

as for people getting thinner. there's been skinny stars around for decades so you can't put it down to that and mcdonalds etc... salads are about as bad for you as their burgers because of all the crap and mayonnaise etc... they put on them.

to be honest and i'm not takign a dig here but i think stuff like supersize me, jerry springer and other programmes that show "how fat america is" probably has a great deal to do with it because it trully is disturbing and if anythings going to make you want to lose weight it's watching some guy that needs jerry springer to take out his wall to get him to hospital because he's too big to get out the door.

anyways it's all good. I'm not even as opposed to all the old ****ers in the gym taking up the treadmills to walk on these days i must be going soft in my old age.

When it comes to climate changes, there's a very big time inertia of maybe a century or more before you can actually feel the effect of diminishing pollution. ie if we were to stop all our pollution today, we'd still have dramatic global warming in the years to come, things wouldn't start to settle until maybe a 100 years from now.

The challenge we have today is to slow it down and stop "feeding" the monster, as well as to figure out ways to deal with huge catastrophies. We know they'll happen and more or less precisely where, we just don't know when. Yet you don't hear any leader talking about what we should start doing if the sea rises 6 meters in the next 50 years as a more and more studies or saying.

If you take the French example, we have a lot of sea shores, close to which many people live, where a big part of tourists go and where a lot of industries are installed. The human and economical impact of inaction would be so much greater than the impact of big scale action now.

It's everybody's interest to address these issues and put pressure on the ones who don't.


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http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index....mber/7/island/

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bad news for those folks or anyone living in any coast for that matter but as shitty as it sounds and i'm being totally sincere, i just cannot get worked up about global warming for some reason.

I know I should but it really doesn't worry me or bother me for some reason. I'd actually be interested to know why myself.