23 SEPT 2012 - PRESS & MEDIA – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
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Anti-global-warming activist, writer and novelist, Noel Hodson , says “We have failed to save the ice-caps. We now face coastal flooding of up to 300ft or 90 metres. Move to higher ground.” (Sea-level calculation below).
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Now there is less Arctic sea-ice than at any time in human history, Hodson says “When floating ice, such as at the North Pole, melts – it does not raise the sea-level. But, it brings several major changes, including less reflection of sunlight, which speeds ocean warming, and it accelerates the slide of land-based glaciers and ice-mountains into the sea, which does increase sea level.”
To inform non-scientists, he has written two dramatic novels set in London and New York
Hodson’s main professional contributions to reduce global warming are promoting Telework, reducing commuting traffic, (Economics of Telework BT 1989, Teleworking Explained Wiley & Sons 1992) and the 2008 prize winning Foodtubes-The Transport Internet, to halve goods traffic.
Will your home flood? Google-Earth has a sea-level-height measure at the base of their screen. Check if you are above the flood-lines.
Hodson studies many of the scientific reports – and concludes “Enough heat to melt the land-based polar ice is already in the ocean and atmosphere. While it is almost impossible to forecast the timing of the process, I believe that coastal cities and communities will experience substantial, permanent flooding of many metres depth, in the coming 25 years. New infrastructure, airports and seaports ought to be built above the flood levels” He bases this informed guess on the past 25 years of overly cautious government and scientific change forecasts, couched in millimetres and centuries, now demonstrated to be 500 to 1,000 times too shallow and too slow and says “There is no high-tech fix that will cool down the planet before the ice melts and the ocean rises.”
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Detailed Blog Article – 21 SEPT 2012.
Most of us in the developed world read this week that more of the Arctic sea ice has melted away than ever in human history. I usually shy away from saying "I told you so", but forecasting is one of my roles for clients and flooding of our major cities is about to affect billions of lives - so a plug for my perspicacity is appropriate. Thus, what terrible doomsday does the melting ice portend?
The oceans have a surface area of 335 million square kilometres. Antarctica has an area of 13.8 million square kilometres which is 98% covered in ice, with a depth of up to 5 kilometres. Greenland, in the Arctic, has an area of 2.2 million square kilometres, with an ice cap of up to 2.6 kilometres. Should both the Antarctic and Arctic land based ice caps melt, the sea-level would rise 113 metres, or 370 feet. Eighty percent of all the people in the world live below 300 feet, on the coastal margins. Greater London Florida Manhattan Island New Jersey Oxford , England
The above passage from Out of the Depths is accurate. When the land based ice sitting atop Greenland melts - and the ice on Antarctica melts - the sea level will rise by 300 feet - or 100 metres. This is the Biblical Flood of Noah on a grand scale. WHEN the rising waters will come to a town or coast near you depends on how rapidly ice melts. Try this experiment: put an ice cube on your desk and take bets on how long it will last. For a seemingly long time it just sits there defying the warm air; it seems it will never melt; then suddenly it collapses and within minutes runs to water. http://www.amazon.co.uk/OUT-THE-DEPTHS-future-ebook/dp/B007MB9ZHY
Polar ice is very much colder, harder than steel (think of Titanic), and there is a lot of it to keep the sea and air cool. But, just like the solo ice cube, just like the Arctic Sea
The good news is told in AD2516-After Global Warming. The human race recovers and creates a Utopian world of 11 billion souls. Like Out of the Depths, this book is also based on possible and probable scientific and socio-economic advancement. Both books track the process of polar ice melting. The first is now, today, focused on the waters rising district by district in New York and London London and New York
They are both good, very readable yarns, based on real science, and both spell out what we, as individuals and families, ought to do now, as the polar ice melts.
Or ...you could wait for government instructions.
Exciting novels about the future, based on today's science and politics
Noel Hodson - Author 16 Brookside UK OX3 7PJ OXFORD
global-warming-books.tel
- SEA-LEVEL AND MELTDOWN
- ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC WARMING – SEA LEVEL RISES
- CLIMATE CHANGE and NEW YORK
- DOOMSDAY – LONDON & NEW YORK FLOOD
- LONDON FLOODS - 300ft UNDERWATER
- GLOBAL FLOODS - READ ALL ABOUT IT!
- S.O.S. – ARCTIC ICE MELTING
- NOAH'S FLOOD - 2012-25
- FLOOD ALERT
- MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - CLIMATE CHANGE
- MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - THE CURSE OF ST. SWITHIN.
- “MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND & MOVE YOUR MONEY ON-SHORE!...
- BIRD-FLU AND FLOOD INSURANCE
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