South Africans urged to use water sparingly – this is the current state of the country’s reservoirs

[Moosedrool]

But....technically yes its going to get worse.

Ever seen the movie "Day After Tomorrow".

This is why I criticise climate alarmist cult members. Look at what you’re making people believe.

You know that’s a piece of fiction right?

 

[konfab]

But....technically yes its going to get worse.

Ever seen the movie "Day After Tomorrow". So basically with the gulf streams stopping every soo many thousands of years (last was 400AD end of Romans too). The Gulf Stream slows down and eventually Earth goes into a BIG FREEZE, well the Northern Hemisphere down to Mexico level, and the south stays hot and toasty. Then it all corrects itself again. With Global warming this change curve is far far worse, so the ice age may be much worse. Until then the storm will get worse in the North, thicker snow, worse hurricanes, etc.

When it does grind to a halt, it would flood the US east coast...why? The strength of the current actually drops the water levels along the east coast, as it pushes the water north. This is also warm water that heats up the US and Western Europe. If it stops the ocean level on the US may rise 10cm, which isnt much, but the polar ice caps melting will send this into 10m range. The North will cool down. The hot areas will get hotter, the wet areas around the world will get wetter, and the storms far worse.

So expect more flooding in SA where it normally floods, and expect the hot areas to pick up record heat waves.

So uhm that would probably mean way more people moving to safe areas like the Cape. Try staying a bit away from the coast though, so Durbanville side.

So if the polar caps melt. This will be the Cape Town area

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You know even devout believers in Climate Change like Barack Obama still buy their mansions at the coast.

Now if we want to believe the "science". It would be something more along the lines of 30 cm in the next 30 years.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/sealevelrise/sealevelrise-tech-report.html

But again, this isn't really an issue given the Dutch figured out how to keep out the sea out in the 1400s with nothing more than wooden windmills. So yeah, this isn't any issue to any country in the world.

After 1400, when major sea-defences had been first constructed and the communication of several waters with the open sea had been dammed up, it became possible to drain pools and lakes. For this purpose windmills were used, and accordingly were built in constantly increasing numbers. At first these were not yet the large mills as we know them, which date especially from the seventeenth century, but smaller mills of the hollow post-mill type.

As windmills grew better and larger their water-lifting capacity increased and they became more numerous. According to the records it was about 1526 that a wip mill was replaced by an octagonal smock mill with a revolving cap. This must have had a winch in the cap, for it was not until the second half of the sixteenth century that smock mills with tail poles were constructed. After that, the possibilities increased rapidly. We find entries about the first oil mill in 1582, a paper mill in 1586, a timber sawmill in 1592; after 1600 windmills arose everywhere and were constructed for a wide variety of purposes.

In the seventeenth century the Dutch made more and more progress in the fight against their hereditary foe, the water. It is a fight that has had to be continued every day and the windmills have played an all-important part in it for more than two centuries. They delivered the country of the water and kept it dry, in spite of the fact that it lies several feet below sea level; in this way they made and kept it habitable. Holland owes its creation as well as its development in the most literal sense to the windmills, for it was thanks solely to the windmills that is was possible repeatedly to reclaim new land for the ever growing population.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170705084250/http://www.let.rug.nl/polders/boekje/history.htm

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

You know even devout believers in Climate Change like Barack Obama still buy their mansions at the coast.

Now if we want to believe the "science". It would be something more along the lines of 30 cm in the next 30 years.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/sealevelrise/sealevelrise-tech-report.html

But again, this isn't really an issue given the Dutch figured out how to keep out the sea out in the 1400s with nothing more than wooden windmills. So yeah, this isn't any issue to any country in the world.


https://web.archive.org/web/20170705084250/http://www.let.rug.nl/polders/boekje/history.htm

That is some crazy naïve thinking

 

[Polymathic]

Seems like a Republic Of Zillestan problem TBH.

 

[konfab]

That is some crazy naïve thinking

Why?

The land that was reclaimed by the Netherlands is over a meter underwater and they were able to do it with windmills. Modern coastal defences are orders of magnitude better. Sure, it isn't going to be cheap, but pretty much any group of people could manage it.

Heck in my neck of the woods they are already doing this:

Furthermore, on the seaward side of the wall, the City placed gabion mattresses on the foundation to protect the wall units against erosion from tidal action.

These gabion mattresses and concrete wall units are now covered with sand, and only about 0,8 m of the concrete wall is visible above the promenade level.

The wall units are designed to accommodate a sea-level rise of 50% of a projected 100-year forecast, and can be removed and raised in a future extension of the wall height, if deemed necessary by climate change.

A 5 m-wide promenade is also being created along the seaward side of Beach Road, stretching from Da Gama Street in the west to the Strand Pavilion precinct in the east. The final design and layout of the wall units allows for renewal and more formal placement of the market place, which initially consisted of ad hoc informal traders located on the Beach Road pavement.

https://www.netwerk24.com/netwerk24/strand-sea-wall-project-still-ongoing-20190710-2

Cost of this was about R200m which for a community that has an operating budget in the order of R50bn isn't much.

 

[Quicks]

Another ESKOM in the works, soon they will increase prices 300% and introduce water shedding.
BEE is a wonderful thing, at least the Apartheid infrastructure was decent enough quality that could last 30+ years. What have they been doing with their time except destroying everything and crying about white people having it too good.

 

[neoprema]

Another ESKOM in the works, soon they will increase prices 300% and introduce water shedding.
BEE is a wonderful thing, at least the Apartheid infrastructure was decent enough quality that could last 30+ years. What have they been doing with their time except destroying everything and crying about white people having it too good.

To be fair they've been stealing millions too not just complaining.

 

[grok]

But....technically yes its going to get worse.

Ever seen the movie "Day After Tomorrow". So basically with the gulf streams stopping every soo many thousands of years (last was 400AD end of Romans too). The Gulf Stream slows down and eventually Earth goes into a BIG FREEZE, well the Northern Hemisphere down to Mexico level, and the south stays hot and toasty. Then it all corrects itself again. With Global warming this change curve is far far worse, so the ice age may be much worse. Until then the storm will get worse in the North, thicker snow, worse hurricanes, etc.

When it does grind to a halt, it would flood the US east coast...why? The strength of the current actually drops the water levels along the east coast, as it pushes the water north. This is also warm water that heats up the US and Western Europe. If it stops the ocean level on the US may rise 10cm, which isnt much, but the polar ice caps melting will send this into 10m range. The North will cool down. The hot areas will get hotter, the wet areas around the world will get wetter, and the storms far worse.

So expect more flooding in SA where it normally floods, and expect the hot areas to pick up record heat waves.

So uhm that would probably mean way more people moving to safe areas like the Cape. Try staying a bit away from the coast though, so Durbanville side.

So if the polar caps melt. This will be the Cape Town area

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Nice, more islands to send the corrupt ANC terrorist leaders to for Treason 2.0..

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Hopefully the next crisis will be ANC shedding ............

I can see the problem developing already ......... some ANCs are broken, some are out of service (howzit Carl), they are running out of fools or fuels - (accent dependent) - and some of those cheap parts (Hola Mr. Fixfokkal) .............. the software on the RET part is corrupt to all hell .......

Ja, looking forward to that crisis.

 

[ghaye]

So do I start building my jetty this year or next year? Going to be cool catching fish from my stoep!

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

So do I start building my jetty this year or next year? Going to be cool catching fish from my stoep!

As long as you don`t catch a poep. <-- see what I did here

 

[Kornhub]

One child died from an e-coli infection last February after drinking contaminated water – the former NMB Mayor suggested adding bleach to make the water safe.

 

[bwana]

Pretty common method to make water potable. Personally I use shockit (10g per 1000l) in our rainwater tanks.