A question about the flood that didn't happen, water displacement and getting our priorities right?

Question

A few days ago in in the UK we were supposed to have a huge flood comparable to the big flood of 1953 - thankfully it didn't happen & the various 24 hour news channels just wasted airtime broadcasting large waves hitting sea walls and localised flooding - but did this amount to our LAST warning to get it right?

If we are to believe in all this Global Warming hype, and considering the amount of previously 'longterm' ice around the globe that has already melted & STILL IS at alarming rate - it doesn't take a genius to work out that less ice means more water in seas, oceans an ultimately a country's waterways; so shouldn't we be taking the weather more seriously as a nation & force this government to start making the serious changes needed?

Stop them messing about continually spending huge sums on trivial ventures by comparison - e.g. this planned 'throw-away' stadium in East London for the Olympics?

Perhaps even the planned Crossrail development for London should be postponed?

I heard one of these news correspondents recently say "we can't build a wall round England" - well why not I ask?

Surely we should be considering doing just that! Wouldn't this be a good long term investment for our country's infrasture - if Global Warming really is the threat that it's made out to be. We just need a government with the balls to get it done!

What afterall, is the point of building a stadium in East London relatively close to the Thames or a new East-West underground route through the heart of central London, unless it is first protected by adequate sea defences?

Has anyone actually done one of these infernal 'feasiblility studies' to see if it is indeed possible to build for example - a 100 foot high retractable re-enforced concrete wall around the UK with heavy duty springs to prevent cracking from butteting waves - something of that nature - what would be the estimated cost versus the estimated cost of a decimated East Anglia and/or flooded central London?

Or at least around the areas of the UK that are most at risk.

A wall that is designed from the outset that can encompass both future enhancements from improved and completely new technological advancments, but is also versatile enough, just to make it thicker or god fobid higher if the weather deteriorates to an even worse level; that can hopefully be quickly, easily and economically achieved.

Can we afford NOT to build something like this in the long run?

Answer 1

build the wall. how can you afford not to.

Answer 2

if you read the IPCC report.....the one that just got the Nobel Prize?....you will see that the WORST case scenario...if we don't do anything, allow China to continue polluting more then the whole EU combined, etc etc.......the effect on the world will be:

1 meter rise in sea level in 30 years.
1 degree F rise in temperature.

This is from the IPCC report folks. You can look it up.

Now, are you still worried about 1 meter and 1 degree?
You shouldn't be......