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Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

icyfroth — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:45:26 GMT

Famous global landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, Tower of London and Sydney Opera House will be lost to rising seas caused by climate change scientists have warned.

Even with just a further 3C of warming – well within the range to which the UN climate science panel expects temperatures to rise by the end of the century – nearly one-fifth of the planet's 720 world heritage sites will affected as ice sheets melt and warming oceans expand.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters looked at how many Unesco sites would be threatened after 2000 years of rising sea levels, but the authors said the first impacts would "definitely" be felt much sooner without action on flood defences.

"It's relatively safe to say that we will see the first impacts at these sites in the 21st century," lead author Prof Ben Marzeion, of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told the Guardian. "Typically when people talk about climate change it's about the economic or environmental consequences, how much it's going to cost. We wanted to take a look at the cultural implications."

Marzeion said that in Europe, particularly vulnerable sites included the leaning tower of Pisa, which is not directly on the coast but would be affected by sea level rises as a result of even a low temperature increase because it is very low-lying. He also cited Venice, which "in a sense you can say is being impacted right now" and Hanseatic League cities including Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen in Germany.

Other sites that would be affected by rising waters include Westminster Abbey and Westminster Palace, as well as the city centres of Bruges in Belgium, Naples in Italy and St Petersburg in Russia, the study says. South-east Asia will have the highest number of people affected by sea level rises, partly because of low-lying, densely populated cities, but also because sea level rises will be the most extreme there.

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I thought it about time for another environmental thread 🙂

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

poddster — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:04:46 GMT

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silverfaun — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:33:24 GMT

And when labor was in govt pongy wong said seas will rise 5 metres by 2020 . Can’t wait to see that disproved along with all flim flam flannerys bogus predictions.lol

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

pct001wine — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:50:29 GMT

"pongy wong" ? Seriously ?

I reckon that just about sums up your credibility on a number of fronts.

May your post remain in perpetuity.

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

freakiness — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:58:32 GMT

@pct001wine wrote:
"pongy wong" ? Seriously ?
I reckon that just about sums up your credibility on a number of fronts.
May your post remain in perpetuity.

It sure does.

How unbelievably childish.

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

debra9275 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:03:45 GMT

I think the same, what an awful name to call someone

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

icyfroth — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:15:27 GMT

now now ppl don't be mean to each other.

I watched a documentary recently where all of Sydney was flooded over hundreds of millions of years ago and that's why we have such a wonderful harbour and lots of sandstone...

No reason to think it can't happen again! You know what they say about history and repeating itself!

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

poddster — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:22:04 GMT

Icy, the sandstone was most likely due to tectonic plate movement and not sea level changes

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carls*world — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:24:26 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
now now ppl don't be mean to each other.

I watched a documentary recently where all of Sydney was flooded over hundreds of millions of years ago and that's why we have such a wonderful harbour and lots of sandstone...

No reason to think it can't happen again! You know what they say about history and repeating itself!

Those awful coal burning, car driving pre-historic industrialists

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

poddster — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:30:39 GMT

The mind boggles at the visual of mechanised dinosaurs

Re: Sydney Opera House And Statue Of Liberty Engulfed

icyfroth — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:32:10 GMT

@poddster wrote:
Icy, the sandstone was most likely due to tectonic plate movement and not sea level changes

no no it was because the delta was silting up and the water, having no place else to go, flooded the land and compressed all the silt and sand. All the vegetation compressed became our rich coal deposits that all the freakin coal mining companies are after now may they rot as well.