Bangkok could be completely underwater by 2050, new report claims

[Tambs2020]

Isn't there already large areas under water every season?

 

Bah... Get bigger bar stools to sit on.. It's all good ????

 

I wonder how many the will fit in the "Baht Boats" ????

Edited October 31, 2019 by Tambs2020
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[Destiny1990]

Mandatory swimming lessons will counter attack this threat.

[illiterate]

we can't even predict the rain, wind weather forecast three days out...

[gazzasore]

What a load of <deleted>

The sea isn't raising any faster than normal

 

Don't by into the Scaremongering <deleted>

[Just Weird]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The tool on the Climate Central website gives a startling projection...

Can't quite put my finger on it but something about that phrase sounds very appropriate.

 

[sirineou]

Nonsense. 

will be underwater, if nothing is done.

as water rises, so will the infrastructure.

The per year rise will not be so substantial that properties will be abandoned. If water rises a couple of inches and starts getting close to the top of a sea wall . the property owner will simply  build the seawall a foot taller. New buildings will backfill more basement pumping stations will be installed.  etc.   eventually might become economically unsustainable, but not in the near future. 

[Just Weird]

1 hour ago, Sticky Wicket said:

 

Obviously nobody believes this horsesh1t

There's a reason for that!

[bender92]

Could be, but won't be. If it was a real crisis, Obama would not have bought a seaside mansion.

[KKr]

2 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Not too hard to imagine canoeing down Nana Soi 4 and Soi Cowboy with the girls waving and dressed in their wellies and chest waders. Something different. 

 

2 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

Imagine looking out of the window of your 3rd floor apartment and seeing a turd float by. 

#amazing Toyland

and my vote for the all time winner of the "wet 'n wild phantasy contest" :
is going to Cadbury !!!

????????

[madmin]

Well looks. Like there pour more concrete on it about 6 feet deep should do it and lose the ground floor either that or it’ll be like Venice 

[jamesbbkk]

Somebody wants a piece of the Riverfront development action?

[khunpa]

Damn! So when I am 80, I will have to swim back to the Hotel from Nana Plaza.

[peterkroll]

The amount of ignorance here is amazing.

[khunpa]

1 hour ago, marquis22 said:

So the ones who do not drown move north and die of smoke inhalation.

I did want to live to 100 but not so sure now .... ???? 

My wife owns land up north. Better stick with her.

[Tops]

In 1990 they predicted that the sealevel would have risen by 2 meters before 2020. Still at the same level as in 1990. 

[Fruit4Life]

Finally Atlantis

[sillyfool]

1 hour ago, Myran said:

Right, except the world would've been flooded 50 times over by now if the modern day climate alarmists were to be believed.

 

Their doomsday deadlines seem to be perpetually 10 or 20 years in the future, year after year. At the end of the day, their projections and models seem to be as accurate as Nostradamus'.

so what you are saying is that it is an inconvenient truth ? 

 

the 10 to 20 year time frame gives them enough time to make oooodles of money. then by that time be rich enough to not care of any false claims or criticism they will incur. 

 

maybe greta can chime in on this one......

 

 

[Krataiboy]

Work appears already to be underway to reinforces sea defences at Cha Am.  Thousands of tons of rocks have been dumped and a row of pylons hammered in along a stretch of the beach just south of the town centre.

 

We all waiting to see what happens next in what looks like the first step towards creating a new, higher sea wall. 

 

Can anyone out there confirm what is actually going on? Maybe somebody with official clout got an early warning of the predicted Great Flood and took it seriously - which is more than can be said for most of ther posters on this Forum! 

 

(PS: I'm charging up my camera and will post a shot of the work in progress asap).

Edited October 31, 2019 by Krataiboy

[0815]

Don't panic !
2030? They will finish plans for a big wall in January 2029. start building the wall in June and it will be finished on December 30.
Still one day left to 2030...

[Catoni]

And the Maldives were supposed to be underwater by now. 

   But last I heard, they’re building new resorts. 

    Oh, and snow was supposed to be a very rare and exciting event by now in the temperate regions. 

    Well... one thing’s for sure. As the decades go past, all their failed predictions make them look more and more like a paranoid global warming religious cult. 

[KhunKenAP]

TAT reports that this will create a 10% increase in tourism for the new beach locations.

[peterkroll]

19 minutes ago, Tops said:

In 1990 they predicted that the sealevel would have risen by 2 meters before 2020. Still at the same level as in 1990. 

It is not at the same level as 1990. After the beginning of industrialisation, sea levels started to raise slowly.

From 1880 until today average sea levels raised by 25 cm, of that by 10 cm since 1990.

 

We know now, that the increase is growing exponentially, not evenly. And the predictions are still not precise but they are getting more precise with every year.

 

Another thing, the increase is not distributed evenly around the globe. Some cities such as Jakarta are already highly affected. Go there and watch the 1.60 m waterwalls they build. The water is a few cm below the top, of course which is partially because Jakarta is sinking.

 

Bangkok had far lesser floods in 1995, the first year I came for business. Scientists universally agree that Asia will be most affected.

 

 

 

[Catoni]

36 minutes ago, peterkroll said:

The amount of ignorance here is amazing.

You’re quite correct. So many uneducated people fail to realize that climate has always been changing. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

    And they fail to realize that humanity and civilization has always done best and made its greatest gains during the warmer times. Not the colder times. 

   There’s a reason you find the greatest biodiversity in the tropics around the equator, and not in the polar regions. 

    There’s a reason people prefer to vacation and retire in the tropics, and not on the islands and coasts of the Arctic Ocean. 

    Yes, the amount of ignorance is staggering. 

[Eligius]

27 minutes ago, Catoni said:

And the Maldives were supposed to be underwater by now. 

   But last I heard, they’re building new resorts. 

    Oh, and snow was supposed to be a very rare and exciting event by now in the temperate regions. 

    Well... one thing’s for sure. As the decades go past, all their failed predictions make them look more and more like a paranoid global warming religious cult. 

Nearly all these dire and catastrophising predictions have proven to be wrong. I remember in the 1970s when the new Ice Age was claimed to be about to break upon us. Then it became 'global warming'; but after the temperature stubbornly refused to go up for about 18 years, the catch-all term, 'climate change', became the new mantra. It is total madness - hysteria at levels I have never witnessed before in my life. Climate always changes, and always will. It has been hotter and colder in the past, and hotter and colder again. The last thing that climate is, is permanently stable. Never has been, never will be. And it is clear that - even if the catastrophists are right (which they are not) - mankind is collectively NOT going to change it. Meantime, REAL pollution (not a natural, beneficial gas) - PM particulates - are damaging people's health, and nothing is being done about it.

 

But we have a mal-used, autistic, OCD-afflicted young Swedish teenage girl (Greta Thunberg) ranting and snarling at the U.N. about 'carbon pollution' and telling us all 'I want you to panic. How DARE you!'. And all this over plant nutriment, CO2, which literally greens our world and makes food grow more abundantly.

 

When politicians start pushing little kids into the forefront of their propaganda (all the Establishment goes into drooling ecstatsies and fawning, applauding servitude over Greta Thunberg) - you know a huge lie is being pushed upon the long-suffering people.

 

Believe all the fake-green, cult-like, unbalanced hype who will.

I am old enough and wise enough and informed enough not to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 31, 2019 by Eligius

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

In 2015, a panel set up by the National Reform Council said that large parts of Thailand’s capital could be submerged by 2030.

Maybe they should rethink the new train route from Bangkok to U-Tapao and build a canal using long boats?

Can you un-sign a contract?

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, bdenner said:

Hope these jerks are not on any charity funded salary. Find it hard to believe any half arsed geographical research centre would employ em!

 

Then there is the fake news rag:
 

Who published this garbage! AND also, what I find surprising is the TV news team posting it!

 

There are already islands in the South Pacific that have had to be abandoned. And ever heard of Venice, where the floods are getting deeper and more frequent?

[wolf81]

What a load of horsesh*t. How much would the water need to rise in 30 years for BKK to be under water? Certainly a few meters. Doubt that will happen in just 30 years. 

 

I'm sure seaside property will continue to appraise in value in the coming years, regardless of the alarmist climate change bullcr*p we keep hearing in the news every day.

Maybe the sea will rise a few centimeters in that 30-year period. Whoop-di-f*cking-doo… Start building some dikes perhaps like The Netherlands have been doing for hundreds of years (if it wasn't for the dikes, half of The Netherlands would be under water).

Edited October 31, 2019 by wolf81

[Catoni]

3 hours ago, Anythingleft? said:

I have a hard time believing all this scaremongering....

Been plenty of doomsday end of the world cults in the past. But the Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Emergency/Climate Crisis/Climate Disruption/Climate Disaster....or whatever other name they are calling it...this week.....has to be the Guinness  Book of World Records doomsday end of the world disaster cult.

   It’s just a tactic being used to bring down capitalism and build world socialism. More and more some of them are even beginning to admit it now. Some of the climate demonstrations you can even see signs attacking capitalism, and the odd communist red flag with hammer and sickle. 

    Gee....wonder what that could mean? 

[kevin612]

Nah, there must be someways to prevent this happen because that would be a financial crisis in Thailand.

[raccos21]

Then they should start to invest in floating homes rather then military vehicles.