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Thames Barrier Design Overestimated Climate Threat
London is less vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by global warming than experts realised, according to a new analysis.
Experts at the Environment Agency said the Thames Barrier will protect the city for decades longer than engineers thought, with a six-year study revealing that the barrier’s original designs overestimated the threat from climate change.
Rather than becoming obsolete by 2030, as its designers thought, the barrier will not need to be replaced until 2070, the agency said today.
Chris Burnham, who worked on the Environment Agency project, called the results “good news”. He said the barrier’s designers had overestimated the likely sea level rise in coming decades when they gave the flood defence a best-before date of 2030.
“London is defended. We can deal with it,” he said.
The Guardian: ‘Thames Barrier gets extra time as London’s main flood defence’
Contrast the above with what the climate ignorami are saying in the House of Lords.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Fancy that, a scare story is discovered to be over blown! The real shock is that a “Mainstream” publication reported it…