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I hope this is'nt flame baitin... but I was just looking through the t.v and I found something saying in 2028 26 English counties will be underwater.... Noow this may sound sick but I think most Scots are happy about that.... we will be able to sit up on the mountains, eat a few pineapple's or coconuts and watch the English drown

I find that hard to believe.

I can make predictions too, but it doesn't mean they're going to be right. I'd like to think earth in general will end in a Dawn of the Dead kinda way...but that's just me...and that's just me at this moment. Tomorrow, i may want it to end in another ice age or something.... :p

I find that hard to believe.
Really... Where are you from

That's not in 2028 that's the worst possible outcome.

Really... Where are you from
What does my geography have anything to do with my opinion of how much the ocean will or won't rise in the next 23 years?

actually there are several things that could happen

if it floods england will be worst affected of the british mainland (I speak as a welshman here)

but the problem is that it has been misnamed as a phenomana

Its really global climate change, so it could get cold or hot but it will change

also what would happen in scotland would be that yes the land would be not paticually affected but the weather will get very bad, think tornado's droughts hurricanes, all very bad

droughts won't be much of a problem in scotland and wales due to the continued rain levels, but most of the current food production areas will be underwater or deserts.

or it could switch off the gulf stream and plunge us into conditions like greenland

Oh my good lord - I don't know WHERE you people get your information from...

I'm an A-Level Geography student - planning on doing Geography at University - and we are studying climate change at the moment (and have been for 2 years).

First, the predictions are around 2050 and they are nowhere near as bad as you suggest...current predictions are saying that *at worst* the sea levels around Britain will rise 3ft...which will certainly not drown half the counties in England.

I'll bet they made that prediction the same time my 5th grade science teacher told me that global warming was so bad we could grow a palm tree in our front yards in a mere five years. It's been eleven years since then.

Oh my good lord - I don't know WHERE you people get your information from...

I'm an A-Level Geography student - planning on doing Geography at University - and we are studying climate change at the moment (and have been for 2 years).

First, the predictions are around 2050 and they are nowhere near as bad as you suggest...current predictions are saying that *at worst* the sea levels around Britain will rise 3ft...which will certainly not drown half the counties in England.

No, just Norfolk and Suffolk :)

And, quite frankly, having been there, no great loss. Especially if someone can save John Peels (RIP) record collection for the nation from his Suffolk village before the floods happen.

I hope this is'nt flame baitin... but I was just looking through the t.v and I found something saying in 2028 26 English counties will be underwater.... Noow this may sound sick but I think most Scots are happy about that.... we will be able to sit up on the mountains, eat a few pineapple's or coconuts and watch the English drown

Well... If that should really happen... The place you live now will be renamed "The English Highlands" and the people formerly known as Scots will be known as "The Boat People".