on a lighter notei hope you live high and dry .
like nmx .too little too late works wonders .just kidding
because do little do late you dont waste energy.
dont worry .we will have full time employment and a booming industry scooping up the water in london
to put out the fires in australia .trump will be playing golf in greenland in the mean time so he wont be a problem no longer
and the prime minister of australia is already in hawai on vacation
what we can do is vote till we see blue in the face.like in the case of nmx we are on our own .
as if we dont own the place .
London has spent billions, but no one can escape climate change from cnn
London has spent billions, but no one can escape climate change
except calgary who doesn know the difference between manmade and natural disaster .dumb as you can be
Take London, capital of the UK.
It's in a strong position: Wealthy, with a government that recognizes the danger of climate change, and a river that can -- for now -- be shut off from dangerous tidal and storm surges.
The highest I've seen'
That's a question that Haigh, associate professor at the UK's University of Southampton, has devoted much of his career to studying.
CNN caught up with him in November on a rainy day along the Thames, a short walk from the Houses of Parliament. High tide was approaching.
"I have to admit, I come up to London quite a lot, and this is one of the highest I've seen it (the river)," Haigh said.
It's easy to go through your day in this city and not notice the river. But it just took crossing a short sea wall that runs along the promenade for the water to rush over our feet.
And yet, no city or person is immune from climate change.
At least
1 million Londoners live in the estuary's natural floodplain and 16% of the city's properties -- 84,000 -- are considered to be at "significant or moderate risk."
Humans have already put so much greenhouse gas into the earth's atmosphere that some amount of sea level rise is inevitable.
"Even if we reduce our emissions to negative now, we will see at least a meter of sea level rise," the oceanographer Ivan Haigh told CNN.
Clearly, quitting all emissions immediately is off the table.
So how soon will we have a meter of sea level rise? And how much higher will it go?