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Most of itI really hate cold weather, just want to hibernate. Just one question, how much of Norfolk is right down near sea-level?
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Brace yourself for the opposite in this new world of extremes….
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Well seeing as the whole of the North Sea was land just a few thousand years ago …
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Don’t know where you get that idea from. Got any sources?
Sea levels can vary by that sort of amount but the extreme does not indicate “average”. In any case we are currently living in the middle of an ice age albeit currently an interglacial. AGW has upset the apple cart, the previously well known global variability has been given a kick into the unknown.
As has been observed, the current trend of global warming may not be so bad for the UK which has dramatically variable weather anyway. I wouldn’t be too sure though, extreme weather is never extremely good. In any event, this is not so good for, say, Bangladesh which will lose it’s fresh water long before it literally floods…
I really hate cold weather, just want to hibernate. Just one question, how much of Norfolk is right down near sea-level
Much of it already reclaimed from sea marsh by the Duke of Bedford in the 1700's if I remember my school history lessons, and quite a bit actually below sea level.
Originally pumped by wind powered machinery, but replaced by coal powered steam engines then electricity and we think WE are green now !
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The rock of the Parisian catacombs were formed when that area was well below sea level.
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…and how does that period reflect in “the average”?
I literally do not know so am genuinely looking for an answer rather than a protracted argument or series of cherry picked comments. We can expect sea levels to change certainly over geological time periods so there is no question it does vary. Considerably.
That is not the question though. The question is why it is changing quite so quickly NOW during a relatively stable interglacial…
I am way too drunk to give this my serious consideration and besides, a neighbour just gave me several months back issues of New Scientist.
Just looking at an article which suggests we may lose the Amazon (to become a savanna) possibly during our lifetime. That’s a bit of a wake up call in it’s own right. Now that vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest have become net carbon in sources rather than the carbon sink they have been since, well since time began…
We made the mistake of putting the fire on last night, whole house was too hot, had to open window in bedroom
Living room was still 23 in the morning.
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A lot of it was farmed until the Europeans turned up and the locals died off due to disease.
You might find a sea-level simulator amusing.
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