[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Janos


what the christ

All I can figure out, is that somehow the residents of the British isles are to blame for their far distant ancestors  moving to said isles several thousand years ago, without considering the risk that a 100-or-so year old former colony would pollute the world in just a few thousands years time and thus melt the icecaps & flood the country.

I mean, it should have been so obvious at the time.

[ionia23]

Flipside hit the nail on the head earlier.  Those in positions of real power do NOT have to act on anything 'humane' unless it interferes with profit margin.

Just talk to tobacco companies if you doubt me.

Or Haliburton

**** yeah

[Grey Wolf]

Interesting thing: Some island nation has an evacuation plan set up with Australia to evacuate the entire population.

[pyro-manic]

Yeah, that's some tiny Pacific archipelago with an average altitude of about 2 metres asl IIRC. Micronesia or Fiji or some such place. Only has a few tens of thousands of inhabitants.

The problem is, the world is run by greedy rich people who want to get even richer by any means necessary. That includes poisoning the seas, razing the rainforests and building stupid cars that do about 10mpg. Oh, and getting their mates to invade hot sandy places where the oil is...

[Nuke]

of course the gradual flooding of the earth isnt that big of a problem. look at the netherlands, most of that place is below sea level already.

[Flipside]

Maybe so, but unless we can build 30m high dykes around the UK, Europe and most of one half of America, it's really not going to help in this case

[aldo_14]

At least I can run to the Highlands.........

[Grug]

Well then the world would become a life on the sea. Just like Waterworld.
And people will adapt to it and grow gills!

Tiara - what is it with you and assimilating people into a collective conciousness?

[Krackers87]

Masturbate..

[Janos]

Originally posted by aldo_14


All I can figure out, is that somehow the residents of the British isles are to blame for their far distant ancestors  moving to said isles several thousand years ago, without considering the risk that a 100-or-so year old former colony would pollute the world in just a few thousands years time and thus melt the icecaps & flood the country.

I mean, it should have been so obvious at the time.

Oh.
Loss of fertile agricultural ground, sudden and aggressive climate changes and overall rise in temperature might have some other consequences, like weakening the Golf Current (uncertain), famine, transportation troubles, fishing getting in trouble except for the most northernmost latitudes etc. Goddamn those ancient idiots for not finding that out.

Of course, these all only apply to UK, whereas countries like Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Italy, Northern Africa, ok let's face EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD are virtually uneffected. Am I rite.

[Zarax]

Unaffected? LOL.
As much as Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors were unaffected by the A-bombs...

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Grug
Tiara - what is it with you and assimilating people into a collective conciousness?

*chops Grug in half*

No omniscient state of conciousness for you!

[Nuke]

then of course theres the macnetic pole shift, dont know what kind of affect that will have in the long run.

[Janos]

Originally posted by Nuke
then of course theres the macnetic pole shift, dont know what kind of affect that will have in the long run.

On the long run, propably nothing, seeing as IIRC they are quite normal events which have happened multiple times over relatively short amounts of history.

It could affect electrics and so on, as Earth's electromagnetic field will fluctuate rather uneasily, but that will only last a couple of tens-hundreds (thousands at best) years. All this is from the top of my head.

[Flipside]

Well, whilst the field is in flux, we are missing a layer of EM protection against the Suns radiation, which will mean a slight increase in the occurences of skin cancer etc.

Theres a strong possiblity that communications and TV satellites will actually function a little better for a while, however, it does mean that the military and GPS systems are going to be completed buggered when it involves magnetic North