On Jul 24, 4:51 pm, abelard wrote:
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?
It would if it were the wrong sort of leaves:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/89421.stm