How to Save Thailand and Malaysia From Rising Sea Levels

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An aerial view of the Strait of Malacca, which runs between peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Credit: Depositphotos

 

A recent meeting between the nations’ leaders was a missed opportunity to address one of the most pressing challenges of the coming century.

 

By Piyali Banergee

 

When Malaysia’s Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob met with his Thai counterpart Prayut Chan-o-cha in late February in Bangkok to discuss, among other things, closer crossborder ties, the two leaders might also have considered coordinating efforts to address the deleterious impact of rising sea levels on their vulnerable coastlines and inland areas.

 

Predictions about when coastlines will be threatened by rising oceans and by exactly how many millimeters seas in Southeast Asia will rise may be rough, but it’s safe to assume, based on new evidence that initial estimates put forward by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 were grossly underestimated.

 

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Back then climate science was just finding its footing. For instance, the IPCC’s 2007 Special Report on Emission Scenarios estimated that in the 20th century, global average sea level rose at a rate of about 1.7 millimeters per year. It also initially concluded that by the mid-2090s, global sea levels would rise to 0.22 to 0.44 meters above 1990 levels – or around 4 millimeters per year,  about twice 20th-century levels. Those estimates were worrisome but not catastrophic.

 

Full story: https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/how-to-save-thailand-and-malaysia-from-rising-sea-levels/

 

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[86Tiger]

 

 

Since I was a kid they have been predicting Miami would soon be under water.

 

 

You will know the end is near when they stop loaning money on ocean front property.  

[phetphet]

Just move up the trash mountains.

[bradiston]

Just out of curiosity, is the photograph really of the Straits of Malacca? Looks awful narrow.

[Tarteso]

In 30 years Bangkok will be under waters… move 
 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/30377946

 

Costal and islands flooding at the end of century..

 

Sea level rise +7m in 30 years.

Edited March 22, 2022 by Tarteso

[Misterwhisper]

1 hour ago, phetphet said:

Just move up the trash mountains.

Exactly. That's gonna keep you safe for at least a millennium; and the air's cleaner up there, too.

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, 86Tiger said:

 

 

Since I was a kid they have been predicting Miami would soon be under water.

 

 

You will know the end is near when they stop loaning money on ocean front property.  

That will never happen, 

[Mr Meeseeks]

As Malaysia and Thailand are both in the top ten of marine polluters, maybe they can live on the giant garbage patches in the ocean that they have created?

[RichardColeman]

Pretty sure they will just come up with the idea of digging a great big hole in BKK for the water to drain away

[Enoon]

45 minutes ago, bradiston said:

Just out of curiosity, is the photograph really of the Straits of Malacca? Looks awful narrow.

It is an inlet/channel leading off of the Straits.

 

No doubt it has a name, but it's not "The Straits of Malacca"

 

To caption it so is the equivalent of captioning "The Solent" as "The English Channel".

 

Narrowest point of the Straits in 38km wide.

 

 

[ikke1959]

Years ago the Prince of Orange  Willem Alexander when he was not king yet offered to help but Thailand did not need the help of the country that is below sealevel and with a lot of experience of water management.

[Henk Langeweg]

Forbid the Sea to Rise by Emergency Law, worked for Covid, so why not do it again?

[BritManToo]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

new evidence that initial estimates put forward by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 were grossly underestimated.

Sea level hasn't risen noticeably in the past 60 years, can't believe it'll rise much in the next 100 years. Bezos and Obama appear to agree with me, from seeing photos of their new multi-million beachfront homes.

Edited March 22, 2022 by BritManToo

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Pretty sure they will just come up with the idea of digging a great big hole in BKK for the water to drain away

My idea is digging a great big hole to bury the IPCC.

[Reigntax]

2 hours ago, Tarteso said:

In 30 years Bangkok will be under waters… move 
 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/30377946

 

Costal and islands flooding at the end of century..

 

Sea level rise +7m in 30 years.

Bangkok’s issue has nothing to do with rising sea levels. Its problem is that it is built on a river delta and is slowly being de-watered, hence the ground is drying out and compacting

Edited March 22, 2022 by Reigntax

[vandeventer]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Pretty sure they will just come up with the idea of digging a great big hole in BKK for the water to drain away

They have already done it and it's called Cambodia but don't tell them.

[RocketDog]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Pretty sure they will just come up with the idea of digging a great big hole in BKK for the water to drain away

Or the Thai Space Program will build a lunar pipe to drain the water to the moon.

Both seem feasible to me. (maybe I've been here too long?)

[Jenkins9039]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Pretty sure they will just come up with the idea of digging a great big hole in BKK for the water to drain away

Should be done in the desert(s) . 

[PETERTHEEATER]

6 hours ago, bradiston said:

Just out of curiosity, is the photograph really of the Straits of Malacca? Looks awful narrow.

No. It looks to be a photograph of the town of Malacca but not the Straits. But then we're used to seeing incorrect images in this newspaper's reports.

[metisdead]

A post with a trolling reference to the PM has been removed.  Please use the correct spelling of people's names when posting. 

[RubbaJohnny]

Luckily have have a lot of experience of drips, a hub for sponges.

[rickudon]

21 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Sea level hasn't risen noticeably in the past 60 years, can't believe it'll rise much in the next 100 years. Bezos and Obama appear to agree with me, from seeing photos of their new multi-million beachfront homes.

I suggest you change your opticians...... or maybe you only count whole metres!

 

In reality, changes in sea level rarely impact on our eyes directly. But on non-rocky coastlines erosion is much accelerated by  even small increases in sea level. On the South-Eastern coast of the USA, whole chains of barrier islands are gradually disappearing. In the UK, 2,300 km of coastline now have some form of protection from erosion (more than any other country in Europe). In East Anglia, erosion can average 2 metres per year. 

[Reigntax]

1 hour ago, rickudon said:

I suggest you change your opticians...... or maybe you only count whole metres!

 

In reality, changes in sea level rarely impact on our eyes directly. But on non-rocky coastlines erosion is much accelerated by  even small increases in sea level. On the South-Eastern coast of the USA, whole chains of barrier islands are gradually disappearing. In the UK, 2,300 km of coastline now have some form of protection from erosion (more than any other country in Europe). In East Anglia, erosion can average 2 metres per year. 

Every aspect of the earths surface has been caused by volcanic reactions, tectonic plate movements and erosion in all forms.

it’s been happening a billion years and still will be in another billion years. Sea levels will rise and fall, new islands will be created, mountains and coastlines will continue to be eroded.

anyone who thinks humans have either the knowledge or power to affect these normal environmental  characteristics is deluded, suffers from a lack of scientific education as well as an overinflated opinion of their self worth.

now if we can agree erosion is natural, where does the sediment settle? And what gets displaced by this settlement?

 

but let us agree, there is a direct and proportional relationship between sea level rising and brainwashing

Edited March 23, 2022 by Reigntax

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, rickudon said:

I suggest you change your opticians...... or maybe you only count whole metres!

 

In reality, changes in sea level rarely impact on our eyes directly. But on non-rocky coastlines erosion is much accelerated by  even small increases in sea level. On the South-Eastern coast of the USA, whole chains of barrier islands are gradually disappearing. In the UK, 2,300 km of coastline now have some form of protection from erosion (more than any other country in Europe). In East Anglia, erosion can average 2 metres per year. 

I lived with my parents on Shoreham beach (1960).

They always worried it would be flooded, but it never was.

House is still there in 2022, beach is still there, sea is still the same distance from the house.

It's never flooded.

 

As I said earlier, Bezos and the Obamas don't seem worried either, and their beach side homes are really low-level, 6 inches would sink them. I always find it odd that the general public are scared by the pronouncements of doom uttered at the instruction of those that own and control everything, without looking at what their rulers are actually doing, rather than saying.

 

The only problem I'd have living on the beach, would be finding the money needed to buy the property.

Edited March 23, 2022 by BritManToo

[KhunLA]

14 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I lived with my parents on Shoreham beach (1960).

They always worried it would be flooded, but it never was.

House is still there in 2022, beach is still there, sea is still the same distance from the house.

It's never flooded.

 

As I said earlier, Bezos and the Obamas don't seem worried either, and their beach side homes are really low-level, 6 inches would sink them. I always find it odd that the general public are scared by the pronouncements of doom uttered at the instruction of those that own and control everything, without looking at what their rulers are actually doing, rather than saying.

 

The only problem I'd have living on the beach, would be finding the money needed to buy the property.

Praying for a sea rise of about 2 meter, then we'll be beachfront, instead of 'almost' surfside.