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In message , Alastair McDonald
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"Rodney Blackall" wrote in message
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Keith (Southend)G wrote:
For any who have been running this over the last couple of years a NEW
version is about to be realeased.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4702636.stm

http://www.climateprediction.net/

Sounds extremely similar to the scheme being run at last Summer's Royal
Society exhibition. Seven months gestation between launch and being
noticed is about par.

ClimatePrediction.net has been running for over a year now, and have now
exceeded 10,000,000 years of model runs!

The BBC are running a series of TV programs on BBC 4 about climate
change next week, and are trying to get more people to join the experiment
See ; http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/

I hope the programmes are a bit more intelligent than the feature on BBC
NEWS24 the other day implying that coastal erosion around Happisburgh
during the past year was a direct result of climate change. They didn't
say what changes they thought had occurred. The reality is that soft
coastal cliffs have always been eroded by the sea and always will be,
irrespective of whether or not there is a change in climate. If sea
level rises significantly the rate of erosion will undoubtedly increase
but that hasn't happened yet.

Sea levels rose by 20 cm during the last century, but the effects are only
seen during exceptional high tides, which are infrequent. Moreover, a
one foot rise in sea level can easily be held by building embankments.
Therefore any dangers are easy to argue away, just as you have done.

On the BBC Six o'clock news tonight, they reported on a new scientific
assessment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4720104.stm

If you click on the "See how much of the UK could disappear if sea levels
rise"
video in the top right hand corner, then you can see how they showed where
another/the same bungalow had fallen off a cliff. They also show a map of
the areas that would be flooded if sea levels rise by 7 m, the amount when a
computer model is run for 1000 years. In general the damage does not look
too bad, unless you are a Londoner, or live in the Hampshire Basin like me :-(

Cheers, Alastair.