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Report from The Nation dated Friday 22 June 2007 :-
Bangkok will be underwater, experts predict - Models of rising sea levels suggest planners, residents need to prepare
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Fed up with seasonal floods on Bangkok streets? Better enjoy the fact that the inundation only lasts for a few months instead of all year round, as scientists are now predicting.
Bangkok is on average just 40 centimetres higher than the mean sea level. With the seas of the Andaman and the Gulf of Thailand continuing to rise slowly every year, the lower part of Thailand's capital could well stay under water permanently.
"People in neighbourhoods along the banks of the Chao Phya River may have to get used to wading through water on their streets all the time," warns Bhichit Rattakul, director of the Asian Disaster Prepared-ness Centre.
"What we need is technology to help us better predict the impact of global warming. We have to get people prepared for the increasingly uncertain future."
Bhichit spoke on the issue last week at a forum organised by the Society of Environment Journalists.
Recent simulation models developed by foreign experts show almost 55 per cent of Bangkok will be flooded if mean sea levels rise by 50 centimetres and 72 per cent if they rise 100 centimetres.
Asia is forecast to have the greatest number of people affected by rising sea levels, especially those populations living in threatened coastal areas such as China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand.
Some cities such as Bangkok are more vulnerable due to subsidence from massive pumping of underground water.
Bhichit, the former governor of Bangkok, admired his successor Apirak Kosayodhin's campaign for city residents to plant trees and turn off lights to reduce carbon emissions. But he said the effort will do little to reduce the impact of global warming because too much carbon is already in the atmosphere.
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's director of environment, Nikom Waiya-ratpanich, said the city would never be ready to adapt to climate change as long as Thai urban planners do not consider it a factor in their planning.
"There are only three factors in these planners' minds: land utilisation, expansion of road networks and recreation areas as required by law. Environment and global warming have yet to enter their minds," Nikom lamented.
While international politicians, scientists and engineers talk about a variety of technologies to tackle floods, Dr Louis Label of Chiang Mai University's Unit for Social and Environmental Research suggested a simpler approach.
"Maybe we should just make space for water so that we don't have to keep fighting with nature," he said.
"We have to look far ahead in every aspect. We don't know the economic situation in the next two decades, and maybe the government won't have enough money to invest in building flood prevention structures all the time."
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Posted on: 8:43 am on June 22, 2007
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GoldenEye
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I better start swimming lessons...........
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Posted on: 8:57 am on June 22, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Tuesday 16 November 201 :-
Agency needed to deal with ‘sinking Bangkok’
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Academics yesterday urged the government to set up an agency to determine specifically how to save Bangkok when it sinks to sea level.
Seawater, they said, is expected to reach Bangkok’s ground level in the next 25 years.
“Our findings have predicted what is coming. The question now is how the government will prepare for this,” said Dr Chalermchon Satirapod, a researcher in the GEO2TECDI (GEodetic Earth Observation Technologies for Thailand: Environmental Change Detection and Investigation) project.
Chalermchon, a lecturer in Chulalongkorn University’s faculty of engineering, believes all parties concerned should look at how the Netherlands deals efficiently with such a problem.
Geology lecturer Thanawat Jarupongsakul recommended flood-tax collection and insurance to set up a fund for flood compensation; land expropriation -- with just compensation payment -- to retain flood water in the natural waterways; and the overhaul of the flood warning system and water resource management. He said climate change and the La Nina phenomenon had brought heavy downpours and floods to Thailand last month.
Read more at :
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Agency-needed-to-deal-with-‘sinking-Bangkok’-30142330.html
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Posted on: 9:35 am on Nov. 16, 2010
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koolbreez
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Set up a flood tax, and compensation system.....yeah right...lololol.......Bangkok will still sink, but a select few will make a huge sum of money off it......hahahaha.
Like 90% of the money that simply disapeared from that sent to the North, and NorthEast this year for flood relief.
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Posted on: 12:21 pm on Nov. 16, 2010
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dirty guru
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Stay tuned for the red sea and Noah (played by Thaksin)
And revenge of the Bug eaters on the same movie card-
""I want to go with you"....heard in the dark everywhere...
And Go highway !!........the mantra on everyones lips: :
Dont hold breath-
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Posted on: 12:31 pm on Nov. 16, 2010
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MickTheKick
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quote:
...experts predict.
this always makes me smile...
Hey, I know what I'm talking about, I'm one of those bastards...
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Posted on: 1:14 pm on Nov. 16, 2010
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magnum
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... Bangkok sinking... intractibly corruption-riddled... hrumph... seems as karmic retribution... maybe there is something to this Buddhist stuff
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Posted on: 7:30 pm on Nov. 16, 2010
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Friday 17 December 2010 :-
Bangkok submerged in a decade: study
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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.
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Posted on: 11:40 pm on Dec. 16, 2010
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Kaymanx
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They could turn that adversity into another tourist opportunity by bringing in gondolas, a la Venice.
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Posted on: 2:30 am on Dec. 17, 2010
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Broken Leg
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High floor condos should get a nice bump in price.
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Posted on: 4:28 am on Dec. 17, 2010
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