Disasters - Thames flood risk to London - part 2 - BBC

[TheMandymegan]

all i got to say run while you can

[GleeOnlineHD]

well this is cheery.

[800800600]

cry



[MegaTitans101]

poor rat unless he enjoys it

[franl155]

it's not IF thjere's going to be another flood, it's WHEN. - any city built on a flood plain of a tidal river IS going to get flooded on a regular basis. Check out the excellent book "London's Drowning" by Anthony Milne - makes one think - well, it did me. I can *just* remember the '53 flood, and my list of housing requirements includes "not in a flood risk area"

[m8s4lif]

Look on the bright side people. Fishing should really improve in the city of London.

[TopGearrules]

ahh well, i live in london but ive got a boat so im alright!

[idoor]

Is there an article about this (saying the same thing?)

[ryhorn100]

Can't the Thames Barrier gates just be extended higher? Or can another massive flood barrier be built further downstream?

[electrique527]

Of course it can!

Greetings from Holland :)

R.

[ryhorn100]

And welcome to YouTube. Anyway, if the the risk to flooding increases as they say so, they should expand the flood defenses soon. You guys in Holland have a bigger flood barrier don't ya? The Maeslantkering?

[electrique527]

Ah, after the big flood in 1953 we built a number of dams and barriers. Its expensive, but if its worth the money then a lot can be done.

Check this:

watch?v=z97gwh6KQz0&feature=re­lated

Richard

[ryhorn100]

Well at least there's time to raise enough money for these kinds of defenses.

[easterangel1]

The Environment Agency Floodscape project identified Cliffe Creek as the weak point in an otherwise fairly robust sea defence on the North Kent Marshes please bring this to the attention of the TE2100 team during the consultation process

[easterangel1]

In the Thames Estuary we are telling the environment agency how much we value our freshwater grazing marsh. Realignment of the seawall is an opportunity to create more room for wildlife, but it MUST be in the right place. The WRONG place is where there are important nationally & internationally protected habitats inside the seawall. They are protected for a reason because they are rare, precious and worth hanging on to

[keiko909]

i agree.the book by richard doyl was excellent, shame the film was absolute bullshit though :(

[paljim24]

Excellent resource for my Year 8 students. Thanx for posting.

[BxHxKx0x]

W00T INTERHIGH

[wizzboy76]

you know why hundreds where killed back then, in the early days ? it was due to the fact that only 1 in 80 people back then could swim, i have researched. to day its more like 30 in 80 can swim.

[islandinthesea]

Yes,but just because you can swim dosent mean you won't drown, there are currents both on the water and under the water and they can drag you under neath the water and you can drown but if you can swim you've got a lesser chance of drowning.

[2006Admiral]

did you see the interviews with the actors afterwards?

if you saw the TV film I would recommend that you get the DVD out now - and watch the documentry done by the actors after the film - tpicaly watch their faces and see how one or two of them show a sign of consern in the making and after the film.

Signed ADF1.

[liamfrombb8]

laggy

[2006Admiral]

Message 2.

Also DR Sarah Lavery is part of the Project Leader time for the Environment Agency at the Thames Barrier.

speek your opinons freely as they are reguarded as fair comment, But I will give this warning.

Hear me not and the prise will be to high to pay in the end, as a cancerine I give this warning heed it well and note it.

My studying will continue and I will be watching deeply on this issue.

Signed ADF1.

[2006Admiral]

Jaydizzay, if I maybe so bold - you think you are under attack from someone who has no right too.

But miss the point on wich I say, I am here to help and Defend the Barrier and save the City I reside in.

The time for bickering is over, its time for action not words of anger.

So from what I see you would say, that Sarah Lavery does not have a clue what she is on about and yet she and I are working along the same turms.

Signed ADF1.

[jaydizzay]

Found it. Surtsey, 1963. There's also an island close to the Solomon islands, the birth of which was observed in 2000, from Kavachi, the volcano.

[jaydizzay]

With regard to my comment about the new Icelandic land formed within the past few decades, it's name eludes me. However, 2 minutes of googling will sort that out.

[jaydizzay]

Last few things. It's explain. Not exsplane or however you spelled it.

I find it a bit unnecessary that you come back onto the same video repeatedly to add to the scaremongering this video already peddles. It's just a bit...pointless. You think it's realistic, but have no facts. I disagree, and I can give reasons why I disagree. I haven't, I know, but that is only because you haven't either.

Do you know what the barrier's able to resist? No. So, why not just stop trying to scare people.

[jaydizzay]

You say you work with facts and only facts, yet you have provided nothing but speculation and guesses. You need to provide solid, hard, cold facts with numbers and figures to back them up.

You look at this island in Greenland. Greenland is a ruddy big island, biggest on the planet in fact, and so I'd love to know which island you mean. Names maybe?

Then perhaps you could look at the Icelandic land, formed within the past decade. A freak occurrence, no? Perhaps its the same with your Island.

[jaydizzay]

2. Twice the speed to what? What was the initial rate of decline of the caps and what is the current rate? Give me some hard facts, not speculation. Not sure what Captain Picard has to do with this, I am no moron and I know who Patrick (note: K) Stewart is. The media loves a bandwagon and the environmental change one is the biggest of all. Believe what you see if you wish, but I'll remain sceptical and happily ignore the majority of media coverage, as you should too. It's opinion. Not fact.

[jaydizzay]

Few things in reply to your comments.

1. I've seen Flood, and it is more worrymongering. As is all of the media attention and all of the 'discoveries' being made by ITN etc. Flood is performed by actors, with no real understanding of what the barrier is capable of coping with, much like yourself.

[2006Admiral]

Message 3.

The Thames is rising and is being watch by more then you know.

Have you seen the newish film Flood on DVD, ask your dad to pick up a copy at the Barrier as its in the cafe on the top of the dike.

See the film and then watch the commentry afterward and listion very carefully to what the actors say.

You can hear it in the voices, they are running scared, they know what it means if it happens right now.

Signed ADF1.

[2006Admiral]

Messgae 2.

More reports are coming in all the time, I take it as you missed out on what the ITN NEWS crew found out on their trip to the Antarctica?

And the new film Documentry out called EARTH (nerated by Patric Stewart - Captin picard.)

Plus the Antartic mealting is twice the speed then first thought and has been documented by the science community at the Antarctica Science for planet impact.

Signed ADF1.

[jaydizzay]

My Dad works on the barrier. It's designed to cope with floods for 100 odd years, and climate change was taken into account. This video is bulls**t, scare-mongering and people who believe it should get hold of some facts to calm their nerves.

[2006Admiral]

Message 1

Im sorry but I work only with the facts as a baseline, to the documentrys I do.

I check back here on a regular bases to see if there are new comments being left.

Climate change has only just become a subject for scientis as of the 1990's +

The full impact has not been felt yet, in Greenland, there was an island above the water in 2006 just appering out of the melting ice, then July 2007 it vanished beneath the waves, please exsplane that to me.

signed ADF1.

[fdemon85]

that flood wall won't hold shit

[Jeorney]

Oh well, it will be fun rowing into work.

Another "disaster" waiting to happen is the planned Desease Lab in London that could cause a problem.

[2006Admiral]

28 days later? a thought not to be done!

Signed ADF1.

[rko123jja]

england will be the dogs bollocks in the olympic swimming evet

[Craigios]

Yeah, we have destroyed this planet. People tend not to care but now they will pay the price.

[TudorRose85]

What do you mean we? I never litter I even't go around my street with a big trash bag and pick up other peoples litter. It is a shame it seams there is more peolpe duing bad then good. Too bad Londons such a beautiful city.

[mezzobbra]

I'm a bit sorry to disappoint you, but is a bit more than picking up litter; lets say we shouldn't produce that much litter in the first place,so to speak.

[2006Admiral]

New descuvery at Antartic as they have found out that the ice is melting twice as fast then they first thought.

So it looks like I am right to say by 2012, we WILL BE SWIMMING! - Bring swimming truncks if you ever vistit London UK.

Signed ADF1.

[ChaoticLunatic]

Give the world back to the sea creatures.. all we ever did was destroy it.

[2006Admiral]

Nice one, I do like that mate, good call!

Signed ADF1.

[2006Admiral]

Our greatist threat to all now is one big Island GREENLAND and its ice, when mealted 20ft added to the water leave around the globe, by 2012 it (will) or (maybe) gone!

Signed ADF1.

[2006Admiral]

This Documentry is a wake up call, but time is now agenst us to build the new Barrior, by 2010, the gate closes 20 times a year.

2012 it topels and the flood begins.

Signed ADF1.

[2006Admiral]

If you think you know it all, then guess again, thoes who have bad comments.

If London goes under, then your job - your home - your life, in the heart of the City is the finachal Dicsticket, if that goes all three come to pass on YOU!

Signed ADF1.

[jcored]

stressy

[charliebrownxv]

So it look in civilisation, for the third world look New Orleans.

[James5563]

INIT MAN F' SAck

[almac62]

i agree with minkydspoon

so let london DIE!

[tl9380]

You're all so ignorant!

[lfcmike12]

haha i hope london does fuckin flood an runins the place,dont wish no one to die but i fuckin hate london pepol!

[BlondeCurlsBlueEyes]

half my family are londoners - what has the city ever done to u?

[2006Admiral]

Well I am a Londoner and I am looking at ways to defend it, with the Antartic mealting faster then first thought.

the information I am seeing is leading to the fact I am right, the Barrior will not hold by 2012.

Signed ADF1.