Britain's losing battle with the sea


	Britain's losing battle with the sea

invictus

10-8-2006 9:33 PM

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climate change, sea-level rise, britain

invictus says:

There may be little to worry about. There may be a lot. The government-funded UK Climate Impacts Programme based in Oxford has produced maps that combine the predicted rise of the land with two different estimates for sea-level rise, one for a future in which we continue to drive our 4x4s and oil-fire our central heating as if there were no tomorrow; and one for a future in which we all take a little more care.

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