Post by scoobydont on Sept 20, 2010 7:50:43 GMT
Having seen the trailer for this programme on how a river valley was about to 'taken back' by the sea i could virtually put money on what would be said in the show and i would have won the bet!
The claim that they can't afford to keep the sea defences the size they need to be due to 'sea level rise' (which is currently 1mm a year) and increased storms in the noth sea due to climate change!
Why did they not just say we don't have the money to maintain the defences due to the economic climate and we have to make tough descisions, this is one of them. Instead of blaming it on alleged sea level rise and a stormier north sea. I've had a look and can't find a single report that says the noth sea has become stomier recently, the sea level rise charts are easy to find (my work machine won't let me post one.
It's nice to see the environment agency are still peddling the governments global warming tosh and the BBC are backing them up the presenter didn't question anything, he just took it all as gospel....
The claim that they can't afford to keep the sea defences the size they need to be due to 'sea level rise' (which is currently 1mm a year) and increased storms in the noth sea due to climate change!
Why did they not just say we don't have the money to maintain the defences due to the economic climate and we have to make tough descisions, this is one of them. Instead of blaming it on alleged sea level rise and a stormier north sea. I've had a look and can't find a single report that says the noth sea has become stomier recently, the sea level rise charts are easy to find (my work machine won't let me post one.
It's nice to see the environment agency are still peddling the governments global warming tosh and the BBC are backing them up the presenter didn't question anything, he just took it all as gospel....