New climate study raises alarm for Asian Megacities

[webfact]

 

A new study that takes into account the effects of both climate change and normal oceanic variations predicts that by 2100, some of Asia’s major cities may be submerged.

 

Sea levels have already been rising as a result of rising ocean temperatures and record-breaking glacier melting brought on by climate change.

 

Yet, a study that was released in the journal Nature Climate Change provides new information as well as dire warnings about the potential consequences for millions of people.

 

The study contends that earlier analyses overestimated the rate of sea level rise and subsequent flooding brought on by natural ocean variations, despite the fact that many Asian megacities along the coast were already at risk of flooding.

 

Full story: https://bangkokone.news/new-climate-study-raises-alarm-for-asian-megacities/

 

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[jacko45k]

Hasn't this been known for some time..... particularly Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta, happening outside Asia too, Lagos, Venice....

[VincentRJ]

What a load of propaganda!! It's well known that mega cities like Bangkok are at risk of subsidence. Sea level rise is trivial compared to the rate of subsidence.

[huangnon]

Despite all the dire warnings and predictions going back three decades, sea levels have not risen at all yet.

 

Beachfront property now going for a song.? Thought not. ????

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, huangnon said:

Despite all the dire warnings and predictions going back three decades, sea levels have not risen at all yet.

 

Beachfront property now going for a song.? Thought not. ????

Where do you get your information from?

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level

[BE88]

TOT will certainly be happy to offer tourists a visit to the new Venice of Asia, the only problem is that there will be a lot of competition.????

[KhunLA]

More silliness from the doom & gloom, distraction, we need your tax dollars to save you, politicians/elite.

 

3.4mm per year X 77 year = 262mm = 26cm 

We're all doomed, IF it happens.

 

We''re <4 kms from the surf @ 23.7m above sea level

so we still won't be beachfront ... krap 

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/faq/8/is-the-rate-of-sea-level-rise-increasing/#:~:text=Yes.,(3.4 millimeters) per year.

 

With that info:

Beachfront property for sale ...

... in 6,970 years, so buy in for savings.

 

Wow, we really gat a bargain at ฿76k for 1/4 rai ????

Worth millions in 7k years 

Edited March 9, 2023 by KhunLA

[Moonlover]

34 minutes ago, huangnon said:

Despite all the dire warnings and predictions going back three decades, sea levels have not risen at all yet.

 

Beachfront property now going for a song.? Thought not. ????

Another denier presents his case without shred of evidence.

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/sea-level-rise-1

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

A new study that takes into account the effects of both climate change and normal oceanic variations predicts that by 2100, some of Asia’s major cities may be submerged.

I'll relax  then.

[KhunLA]

At this rate, who ever buys our house, is in big trouble ....

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... 7000 years from now ????

[DaLa]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

A new study that takes into account the effects of both climate change and normal oceanic variations predicts that by 2100, some of Asia’s major cities may be submerged.

Well experts aren't called experts for nothing. Talking of climate change , started to need the air con again here the last few days, but still can't see that happening by 9 o'clock tonight.

[ozimoron]

7 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Hasn't this been known for some time..... particularly Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta, happening outside Asia too, Lagos, Venice....

Yes it's been known for decades and the problem has been willfully ignored by the right for just as long. Ignorance funded by fossil fuel pseudoscience.

 

5 hours ago, huangnon said:

Despite all the dire warnings and predictions going back three decades, sea levels have not risen at all yet.

 

Beachfront property now going for a song.? Thought not. ????

If you can't see it and touch it, it doesn't exist, right? Sea level rise is measured in mm per year but still has a dramatic effect.

[Red Forever]

5 hours ago, VincentRJ said:

What a load of propaganda!! It's well known that mega cities like Bangkok are at risk of subsidence. Sea level rise is trivial compared to the rate of subsidence.

"Sea level rise is trivial"! Tell that to the islanders of archipelagos in the Solomon Sea and other areas in the South Western Pacific.

Straight out of the Trump handbook on climate change denial.

 

[userabcd]

Well for all the rhetoric, global meetings, new green business technologies designed and implemented, new energy policies, tax incentives, human populations increasing etc... it does not seem to stop the polar caps melting, heat increasing.

 

Someone and some groups are making bank.

Edited March 9, 2023 by userabcd

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

I'll relax  then.

Guess it depends where you live and how old you are.

https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/study-rising-sea-levels-flood-nearly-650000-oceanfront-properties-us-by-2050

[ozimoron]

3 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Well for all the rhetoric, global meetings, new green business technologies designed and implemented, new energy policies, tax incentives, human populations increasing etc... it does not seem to stop the polar caps melting, heat increasing.

 

Someone and some groups are making bank.

True, fossil fuel companies are making record profits this year.

[poskat]

I'll worry when the rich folks and politicians stop buying the beachfront property, and start buying property a few miles inland cuz thats where the new coastline will be.

 

after harping about climate change, and its impending devastating effects for 8 years, the first thing B.H. Obama did after getting out of office was buy a $12 million dollar beach front estate on marthas vineyard

[BritScot]

7 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Hasn't this been known for some time..... particularly Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta, happening outside Asia too, Lagos, Venice....

And London and strange as it is they are all still here, infact you can get 30 year plus mortgages... Ha ha ha Banks are so stupid  the world is about to end or is it the Sheeple who spout this cult nonsense? Hasn't it been 7 plus mad predictions by people like gore (who flies around on his private jet making millions a year from talking climate cult). The panic this man has caused to millions: Great lakes dry! No highest level ever recorded, No ice caps (some decrease and some increas as have done for millions of years), poor bears gone yet highest populations since records began infact so high they are starting to cross mate with Great Brown bears. Not on prediction has come true. 

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, BritScot said:

And London and strange as it is they are all still here, infact you can get 30 year plus mortgages..

We will resort to science, if the Dutch can do it, so can London. 

I can't afford a London mortgage!

[KhunLA]

37 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

At this rate, who ever buys our house, is in big trouble ....

.... 7000 years from now ????

.... or not

 

Edited March 9, 2023 by KhunLA

[Yellowtail]

18 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Yes it's been known for decades and the problem has been willfully ignored by the right for just as long. Ignorance funded by fossil fuel pseudoscience.

Yet the Left buys up all the beachfront property....

 

 

18 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

 

If you can't see it and touch it, it doesn't exist, right? Sea level rise is measured in mm per year but still has a dramatic effect.

Yet the left buys up all the beachfront property....

 

 

[BritScot]

10 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Well for all the rhetoric, global meetings, new green business technologies designed and implemented, new energy policies, tax incentives, human populations increasing etc... it does not seem to stop the polar caps melting, heat increasing.

 

Someone and some groups are making bank.

Do a little research, some decrease and some increase every year however the total area remains constant and sometimes increases but photos are managed and posted of certain areas to give the effect they want, data is picked to promote their agenda. It would have more credence if they picked one date in time for all aspects. The west's model is flawed however the Russian model is far more accurate.  (Note I'm not a Russian fan boy).

[BritScot]

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

We will resort to science, if the Dutch can do it, so can London. 

I can't afford a London mortgage!

Not many can and local born have no chance or even much desire to live there and opted to sell making a killing and buy further north. The fact that the uk doesn't have major costal defences being built should wake people up to the scam. The fact that mortgages are rising and not crashing around the coastal beach front property also should wake people up.

[ozimoron]

7 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Yet the Left buys up all the beachfront property....

 

Yet the left buys up all the beachfront property....

I guess to you that's proof that sea level rise isn't happening or isn't a problem? 

 

By the way, Obama's sea front property is about ten feet above sea level. Facts matter. That means it will about about three centuries at the current rates of sea level rise before it becomes a problem. Your gotcha moment is a furphy.

Edited March 9, 2023 by ozimoron

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

I guess to you that's proof that sea level rise isn't happening or isn't a problem? 

To say that it's not the end of the world is not to say it isn't a problem. 

 

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

By the way, Obama's sea front property is about ten feet above sea level. Facts matter. That means it will about about three centuries at the current rates of sea level rise before it becomes a problem. Your gotcha moment is a furphy.

Okay, that's one out of how many million? You guys crack me up.

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

To say that it's not the end of the world is not to say it isn't a problem. 

 

Okay, that's one out of how many million? You guys crack me up.

Given that most cities and arable land lie near the sea it's definitely a problem and that problem needs to be fixed before a tipping point arrives in the very near future. Scientists know there's only one viable solution to the problem and it isn't building sea walls. 

[userabcd]

11 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

If war didn't exist the military would be out of a job. If cancer didn't exist, many doctors would be out of a job. Your point?

 

 

Govt and people stop all wars and get on with each other, military budget diverted to and allocated to medicine and doctors scientists find a quick cure  for all human ailments then countries will be awash with money which could be distributed to us.

Edited March 9, 2023 by userabcd

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, Keep Right said:

Global warming cult sponsored by the people from the Trump derangement syndrome. What nonsense, the earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years.

Yes, I quite agree with you. There is ample evidence that there has been cyclic warming and cooling of planet Earth over millions of years.

 

But this time it's different. The most destructive animal on mother Earth is giving it a great big shove in the wrong direction. And it's the only planet we have so it's time mankind got a grip. 

 

Listen to Greta, not that idiot Trump!

[ozimoron]

12 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Govt and people stop all wars and get on with each other, military budget diverted to and allocated to medicine and doctors scientists find a quick cure  for all human ailments then countries will be awash with money which could be distributed to us.

And if a permanent solution to climate change is effected and made law then the climate change agencies will see their funds reallocated. Nobody is pushing back against this despite the right wing talking points. 

[Hawaiian]

49 minutes ago, poskat said:

I'll worry when the rich folks and politicians stop buying the beachfront property, and start buying property a few miles inland cuz thats where the new coastline will be.

 

after harping about climate change, and its impending devastating effects for 8 years, the first thing B.H. Obama did after getting out of office was buy a $12 million dollar beach front estate on marthas vineyard

He also bought a beachfront property in Hawaii that is already having major problems with erosion.