Frightening
Bangkok will soon be swamped by the Gulf of Thailand, and the MSM and experts say it is Global Warming. Are you frightened yet? AP:
Bangkok Sinking Under Rising Seas
Major Cities Around the World at Risk of Being Swamped…Experts say these waters, aided by sinking land, threaten to submerge Thailand’s sprawling capital of more than 7 million people within this century. Bangkok is one of many of the world’s largest cities at risk of being swamped as sea levels rise in coming decades, according to warnings at the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change held here.
“This is what the future will look like in many places around the world,” says Lisa Schipper, an American researcher on global warming, while visiting the temple. “Here is a living study in environmental change.”…
“If the heart of Thailand is under water everything will stop,” says Smith Dharmasaroja, chair of the government’s Committee of National Disaster Warning Administration. “We don’t have time to move our capital in the next 15-20 years. We have to protect our heart now, and it’s almost too late.”
Are you frightened yet? You should be. Frightened of the media, that is. Here are paragraphs 7 and 8 of the story:
The still expanding megapolis rests about 3 1/2 to 5 feet above the nearby gulf, although some areas already lie below sea level. The gulf’s waters have been rising by about a tenth of an inch a year, about the same as the world average, says Anond Snidvongs, a leading scientist in the field.
But the city, built on clay rather than bedrock, has also been sinking at a far faster pace of up to 4 inches annually as its teeming population and factories pump some 2.5 million cubic tons of cheaply priced water, legally and illegally, out of its aquifers. This compacts the layers of clay and causes the land to sink.
Let’s do the math. The water around Bangkok is rising about 1 inch every 10 years. So if that current rate keeps up, the water will rise a foot by the year 2127 — 120 years from now. But Bangkok is apparently sinking about 4 inches a year, 40x faster than water is rising. So this article doesn’t really have anything to do with global warming at all, but you have to dig pretty deep to find out.