"A report on the effects of climate change in Australia paints an alarming picture of life in the city of Sydney.

It warns that if residents do not cut water consumption by more than 50% over the next 20 years, the city will become unsustainable."

"Sydney would come to resemble the harsh, dry and inhospitable conditions of remote inland towns."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6315885.stm

Howard take note. Dick head.

Aren't people who visit this forum going to comment on this?! I wouldn't be hurrying off to Australia with this sort of forecast.

I'm just curious to hear people's reactions.

It was in the Australian newspapers yesterday. Yes, it's a huge worry, but so are the effects of global warming everywhere else. I'm pretty sure the UK won't get off lightly either.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=422721

If global warming turns out to be a true phenomena the whole world will be effected, so what are you going to do, live on the moon?!

Nobody seems too worried that when the sea levels rise most of East Anglia will be drowned, so why should people worry about Sydney?

S

Yes l read half of London will be under the ocean due to global warming in 50 years, in my opinion most of the time these so called experts get it wrong, some say theres no such thing as global warming due to pollutioni its just a natural weather cycle the earth is going though. From what l read the El-ninio weather effect which has casued the drought will end next year and water levels will get back to normal, there was a worse drought early last century and that ended after a couple of years.

You can hear an enormous ripping noise all around the UK, everyones tearing up their Immigration application forms to OZ.

I always think about it like this:

The white cliffs of Dover are all sedimentary limestone, formed by billions of shelled organisms dying and falling to the bottom of the sea billions of years ago. Over these billions of years, pressure has caused the shells and bones to bond into Limestone, or Calcium Carbonate.

Now the key to this process is that it happens at the bottom of the sea, so at some point in the dim and distant past, these cliffs were under substantial amounts of ocean, so maybe this is just nature returning to how it was way back when.

Just because it doesn't suit us humans is tough I think...

Discuss...

S

Very true!

Tiz but plate techtonics and uplift of land masses. There are fossils on Mount Everest and in the rocks of Antartica.

Global warming is a reality, it's already here. Sydney's major asset is that it is coastal and it has the readies to build de-salination plants.

The vast majority of reputable scientific opinion is behind (a) global warming and (b) it being mainly caused by man.

There *is* some dissident opinion. It is interesting to note that much of it comes from research funded by various energy companies - Exxon Mobil has put tens of millions of US$ into such groups which, without actually telling untruths, have put considerable spin on the issue especially through media outlets.

At a superficial level one could easily be led to thinking that the global warming "debate" is pretty even handed. It is not: warming is happening, it has probably reached the tipping point and the planet is going under so far as *we* are concerned within the next hundred years.

I read a couple of weeks ago, IIRC, that the earth currently has 1.2 times the population that it could support indefinitely given that everyone kept the same standard of living and consumption. And 4 times the number that is sustainable if the third world was brought up to the same level.

No, I don't believe everything I read, but I do draw conclusions from a range of sources.

l know its a different topic but remember all the experts saying the Y2K bug or whatever it was, was going to crash all the computers on new years day 2000, people though there was going to be anarchy and chaos, people stocking up food and guns and ecerything and nothing happened. It seems whenever they predict these doomsday type things their always wrong.

In many cases nothing happened *because* there was a panic several years previously, and many millions of man-years were spent pre-empting the problem. I myself spent months debugging a couple of pretty simple programs that I had written which would have gone down the GIGO route had I not spent the time.

Translate *that* into action now, before the big heat!

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...08#post4346608

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