The Telegraph published a map of London as it would look following a one-metre rise in sea-levels. It's not pretty — several billion dollars' worth of real-estate ends up under water. The proposal is to build defenses against the rising Thames, but of course that won't do much good if the Gulf Stream stalls out as many predict it would following such a rise in sea-level. If that happens, they won't need to defend London's pricey riverside real-estate from the rising seas, it will already be frozen under 10 metres of ice.
Dr Nassos Vafeidis of the University of the Aegean, Greece, and Prof Rob Nicholls of the University of Southampton and colleagues have weighed up the impact of rising levels on the Thames Estuary, where 1.25 million people currently live, 1.5 million commute and there are assets worth up to £100 billion.
(via We Make Money Not Art)
