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*wonders whether to tell Nugget that Abertawe is Welsh for Swansea*
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*wonders whether to tell jimbo that it's the Welsh for 'Mouth of the River Tawe'*
Norwich, Ipswich and Ely are all above sea level, although not much. The highest point in my home county of Suffolk is 55 metres, we used to need ice axes and oxygen climbing that. Ooo Arr.
Dinosaurs farting? Someone's blowing smoke - we've had a good few Ice Ages since then - the Earth warms up and cools down all the time, it's never steady. Back in the 1970s the worry was of global *cooling*, not warming, and in the 50s it was nuclear winter (so there's your all-American solution to global warming - nookuler missals, yessirreee).
Actually, since we'll run out of fossil fuels to burn fairly soon, the risk is not of global warming but of killing each other off in energy wars, unless someone comes up with a better idea than nuclear reactors - hot rocks, tidal, fusion...
More windy now? There was a harrowing Timewatch repeat on last night about the Great Storm of 1953, which flooded a lot of areas along the East Coast in a similar manner (although nowhere near as destructive) to the recent tsunami - most of those who died were the poor who could only afford to live in low-lying areas. Plus ca change.