On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:49:08 +0000 (UTC), (Andy Walker)
wrote:

In article ,
Paul Hyett wrote:
Having billions of tons of ice ploughing our northern cities into the
ground, would be infinitely worse than having to raise sea-defences, or
even moving to higher ground!

You'd need a fair number of billions of tons. One billion
tons of ice would cover the UK to a depth of about one-sixth of an
inch. Wouldn't even stop the trains running ....

not even if it were the wrong sort of ice?

regards

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