Bangkok submerged in a decade: study

[PeteC]

These warnings are coming more frequently now, and from different bodies. Want to buy a condo in Bangkok? Perhaps good to think long and hard. Pete

Bangkok submerged in a decade: study
By The Nation
Published on December 17, 2010

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2010/12 ... 44610.html

A weather model study has found that Bangkok could be submerged by seawater in as few as 10 years, says the director of the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park's Energy for Environment Centre.

Seree Supharatid said the capital was among nine Asian cities at risk of being flooded.

If the city received water at a rate of more than 4,100 cubic meters per second - combined with 5 per cent increased rainfall, a land subsidence rate of 4 millimetres per year and a rise in the Gulf sea level of 1.3cm per year - the inner city area would be submerged within a decade.

Some 680,000 residents and 1.16 million buildings would be affected, especially in Bang Khun Thian, Bang Bon, Bang Khae, and Phra Samut Jedi.

[PeteC]

The Bangkok Post's more extensive story. Pete

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... tudy-finds

[sandman67]

Engage the Sandomatic 2000 Estate Agent Sim (tm) program:

Bangkok....Venice of the East!

kerrrrrrrrching!!!!!!

[margaretcarnes]

That's the subway f....d then.

[JimmyGreaves]

Yes but if you get an apartment on the second floor you should be ok :-)

[richard]

Business opportunity in Gondolas Barry?

[Khundon1975]

That's the subway f....d then.

Not at all Mags, you just use a SUB.

[mars]

That's the subway f....d then.

Knowing Thailand

The subway will survive and the sky train will be flooded

[hhfarang]

^ Right, the subway has huge bilge pumps or it would be flooded already during the entire rainy season.

[margaretcarnes]

That's the subway f....d then.

Knowing Thailand

The subway will survive and the sky train will be flooded

[hhfarang]

Exactly a decade ago, in 2000 there was an article by a UK writer who was one of the climate change early warners who said that a decade would mark the end of snow in the UK and that British kids would grow up never seeing the white stuff... his decade has passed this year. Think the UK will get any snow?