Read my other post. More will stay in the atmosphere, more (probably) in the sea. In some scenarios we shall have torrential rains and long droughts; in others we'll be under a new ice cap. Unfortunately atmospheric modelling would take more computer power than SETI, even if we had the right models to begin with. Douglas de Lacey
Anyone know the URL of that program that is going to harness spare computing power on your PC overnight to do climate modelling?
Umm because there's not the spare land/it would take years to get permission/etc.
Alex.
Spare land? Only 7,5% is settled in the UK. The UK has a land surplus.
how many times has this been talked about, or as you put it 'promised'? And how many times has it really happened? Its not hard to see whats going on.
We dont really know what will happen in 100 years. We have plenty of time to act if things do get drier up, but being on a small island surrounded by sea makes that very unlikely. And in that time we can expect a lot of the the infrastructure to be relaid, old pipes lined and so on, which will cut water waste considerably. If things get bad we might even have to implement a hose ban. Scary stuff.
There isnt any reason in that at all.
NT
Careful, Douglas, you'll be put in the 'nutters' category if you show such sense.
Mary
Ta darlin.
The UK small? Drive from Land End to John O' Groats on B roads and see if you think it is small.
Sadly my 98SE celeron 433 is to meager for them to be interested.
Oh well. Onwards and Linux...
Mary, he is not showing much sense at all, neither are you. The energy in purifying 1000 cu metres of water is not much more than 1 cu metre. Passing water through filter beds is not a big thing. Using gravity to assist pumps should be used as well.
Some areas, mainly around London, recycle sewage water, so more water down the drains means more water to re-cycle.
Wouldn't even need to build them. Just raise the Thames flood barrier and allow the water to accumulate behind it :-)
Owain
Possibly not infinite, but the amount of energy is probably not decreasing.
Owain
I'd have to be desperate to use untreated Thames water for anything.
Mary
Are you asking whether the authorities have cried wolf before? If so, the answer is "Not that I am aware of in East Anglia".
And that is the nub of the problem. For far too long we have assumed that "science" can get us out of any and every mess (see for instance Alec Broers' breathtakingly arrogant Reith Lectures) -- without any reason for such assumptions apart from greed and mental laziness.
AIUI, we may already have gone past the point of no return which could cause the Gulf Stream to collapse. in which case there is no way we could restart it. As I said, experts differ over what might then happen, but none of the predictions are particularly pleasant.
On a related topic I have just had the procedings of DEFRA's 2005 climate change conference pointed at me: you can download the whole book at
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It is indeed.
Douglas de Lacey
Heavens! I didn't think anyone else had listened.It was hard work.
Unsatisfactory is my memory ... arrogant perhaps but precise recall has gone.
I might do that.
Mary
Blah blah blah.
In the UK many people dont care about what happens in the future, in present ,Australia is lacking of water, the government ignored this problem until now.
i dont think many of you think about the future, but most of you might want to think about it now, before its to late......
Yes but it's well known that Australia is full of criminals and their descendents. You brought in on yourselves.
Don't be daft.
Even if it were true, it wouldn't mean that there were no criminals in the rest of the world.
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