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Birmingham could be the worst place to live in Britain

 
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:23 pm    Post subject: Birmingham could be the worst place to live in Britain Reply with quote

The city of Birmingham could be the worst place to live in Britain if you want to avoid climate change, according to one of Britain's leading climatologists in an interview for BBC One's Inside Out programme Climate Change Now (Friday 30 March at 7.30pm).

Dr David Viner, a senior scientist at the world renowned Climatic Research Unit, favours Somerset, South West Devon and inland North Norfolk as among the best places to live with climate change in the future.

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So no change from before then? Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Won't North Norfolk be under water ?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nod wrote:
Won't North Norfolk be under water ?


Life would be wetter, down where its wetter. Under the sea, under the sea...................... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Somerset, South West Devon and inland North Norfolk"

this bloke must have some holiday homes in these places
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Will it be too hot in the southeast to live then? How about places by the sea like Brighton, Margate or southport?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They will be under-the-sea, not by-the-sea.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nod wrote:
Won't North Norfolk be under water ?


I might be living by the seaside one day then Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hot summer temperatures, coupled with air pollution and the tendency for extreme storms will make Birmingham an unpleasant place to live," said Dr Viner.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Will it be too hot in the southeast to live then? How about places by the sea like Brighton, Margate or southport?


Phew. I think I'll have to move to my little pad in Marbella permanently if the south of England hots up!

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:

Life would be wetter, down where its wetter. Under the sea, under the sea...................... Rolling Eyes


Ahhhh The Little Mermaid... one of my favourite movies.. Very Happy

Birmingham, is just a very big Motorway Service Station.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

and it may not be advisable to try and move abroad to escape....

http://www.soton.ac.uk/ses/news/2007/mar/09bMar2007.shtml
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nod wrote:
and it may not be advisable to try and move abroad to escape....

http://www.soton.ac.uk/ses/news/2007/mar/09bMar2007.shtml


NEOs possibly pose a greater threat to life than terrorism, yet the funds for Spaceguard and associated search facilities are meagre in comparison to the sums spent on the "War on Terror". Most NEOs that have carried out 'near misses' have only been spotted as they passed the Earth - I think 4179 Toutatis was the famous one, which would have done plenty of damage had it struck. As the article says, something like the Tunguska event of 1908 - when a bolide or small object exploded in mid air, causing a huge swathe of destruction - would cause something akin to a small nuke without the radiation effects. Even a relatively small chunk of rock - say something half a mile across - would cause untold damage.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and then suddenly the Americans would be everybody's friends!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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and then suddenly the Americans would be everybody's friends!


I think there would still be some people complaining. The French for starters.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you surrender to an asteroid? Wink
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