Singapore could be in “deep” trouble by the end of this century, warn experts
July 18th, 2010 | 
Author: In anticipation of possible rise in sea levels caused by Global Warming and Climatic Extremity, Singapore engaged the services of Delft Hydraulics, a Netherlands-based water research and consulting organisation in 1997.
Delft Hydraulics subsequently set up a research centre with the National University of Singapore and the Public Utilities Board. With their help, the Marina Barrage was built but it wasn’t meant to be an effective solution against sea level rises.
The Marina Barrage is more effective in keeping water in (as a reservoir) than keeping water out (rising sea level) considering that Singapore is surrounded by sea.
How Does The Barrage Work?
The barrage comprises of nine numbers of 26.8-metre-long hydraulically operated steel crest gates built across the 350m wide Marina Channel to keep out sea water.
Under normal conditions, the steel gates will remain closed to isolate the reservoir from the sea. During heavy rain, the steel gates will open as necessary to release excess stormwater to the sea when the tide is low.
However, when it is not possible to do so during high tide, the Drainage Pumping Station capable of pumping up to 280 cubic metres per second will pump out the excess stormwater into the sea.
The experts at Delft Hydraulics have warned that, if the ice caps melt significantly as a result of fossil-fuel linked Global Warming, waters could rise up to 6 metres by the end of this century, which would spell trouble for Singapore and many other coastal cities.
Hypothetically speaking, if NO solutions are found to tackle Global Warming, we’d be looking at carbon PPM levels of 450-660 by year 2050 (presently at 380-400). That would translate into an approximate 6 degree rise in Global Temperature and the meltdown of all polar ice caps sometime around year 2030 to 2035.
With the majority of its population concentrated in coastal areas of less than 2m in elevation, the resulting rise in sea level (2m-5m) will flood most of lowland Singapore, (in particular, the east coast area) not to mention the switching off of the gulfstream, air and sea current circulation mechanisms.
Even if singapore somehow manages to avoid becoming another Atlantis, the climate in Singapore will probably become even hotter and humid making life even more unbearable.
Forecaster Extraordinarie
* Carbon PPM level = Carbon Dioxide level measured in parts per million (ppm)
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It is quite obvious that this threat is known to the Architects and Engineers in Singapore in the Private Sector, as most new development of apartment buildings have their first residential floor to begin at a height of what used to be the 6th Floor.
From the ground level to the first floor there is huge void space that is more then 18 meters, which one had assumed is to raise the first residential floor to be above traffic noise.
Now the logic seems clearer that it is also in “anticipation” of the big flood due to the global warming effects.
Unfortunately, with a non-economist playing the role of PM, the danger is exacerbated when he will believe that an overheated economy – that is expanding at a rate of between 13 to 15 percent – can be resolved with an addition of 100,000 PLUS more foreign labor.
Can Singapore save herself from this reckless approach to tweaking an overheated economy that will obviously contribute further to a worsening global warming crisis ?
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They already hired that CalTech guy to do the research.
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THIS IS UTTER NONSENSE!
If the water level rises by just 1 or 2 metres, the entire Singapore would be below sea-level. There is no need to wait for a 3 or 6 metre rise. In any case, what we need are dykes to protect the entire coastline of Singapore, certainly not rely on the Marina Barrage.
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The contract probably won at the lowest of price and you expect them to build a real barrage that works? Are we sure when it does not help any of the recent floods.
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First of all: This uncle will no longer be around when it happen.
Second of all: Why is the multi-million dollar Minister not around whenever there is “freak” flooding?
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The researcher suggests that atmospheric carbon dioxide — often thought of as a key “greenhouse gas” — is not the cause of global warming. The opposite is most likely to be true, according to Robert Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conservation in Ohio State’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. It is the rising global temperatures that are naturally increasing the levels of carbon dioxide, not the other way around, he says.
Essenhigh explains his position in a “viewpoint” article in the current issue of the journal Chemical Innovation, published by the American Chemical Society.
Many people blame global warming on carbon dioxide sent into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels in man-made devices such as automobiles and power plants. Essenhigh believes these people fail to account for the much greater amount of carbon dioxide that enters — and leaves — the atmosphere as part of the natural cycle of water exchange from, and back into, the sea and vegetation.
“Many scientists who have tried to mathematically determine the relationship between carbon dioxide and global temperature would appear to have vastly underestimated the significance of water in the atmosphere as a radiation-absorbing gas,” Essenhigh argues. “If you ignore the water, you’re going to get the wrong answer.”
How could so many scientists miss out on this critical bit of information, as Essenhigh believes? He said a National Academy of Sciences report on carbon dioxide levels that was published in 1977 omitted information about water as a gas and identified it only as vapor, which means condensed water or cloud, which is at a much lower concentration in the atmosphere; and most subsequent investigations into this area evidently have built upon the pattern of that report.
For his hypothesis, Essenhigh examined data from various other sources, including measurements of ocean evaporation rates, man-made sources of carbon dioxide, and global temperature data for the last one million years.
He cites a 1995 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a panel formed by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988 to assess the risk of human-induced climate change. In the report, the IPCC wrote that some 90 billion tons of carbon as carbon dioxide annually circulate between the earth’s ocean and the atmosphere, and another 60 billion tons exchange between the vegetation and the atmosphere.
Compared to man-made sources’ emission of about 5 to 6 billion tons per year, the natural sources would then account for more than 95 percent of all atmospheric carbon dioxide, Essenhigh said.
“At 6 billion tons, humans are then responsible for a comparatively small amount – less than 5 percent – of atmospheric carbon dioxide,” he said. “And if nature is the source of the rest of the carbon dioxide, then it is difficult to see that man-made carbon dioxide can be driving the rising temperatures. In fact, I don’t believe it does.”
Some scientists believe that the human contribution to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, however small, is of a critical amount that could nonetheless upset Earth’s environmental balance. But Essenhigh feels that, mathematically, that hypothesis hasn’t been adequately substantiated.
Here’s how Essenhigh sees the global temperature system working: As temperatures rise, the carbon dioxide equilibrium in the water changes, and this releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. According to this scenario, atmospheric carbon dioxide is then an indicator of rising temperatures — not the driving force behind it.
Essenhigh attributes the current reported rise in global temperatures to a natural cycle of warming and cooling.
He examined data that Cambridge University geologists Nicholas Shackleton and Neil Opdyke reported in the journal Quaternary Research in 1973, which found that global temperatures have been oscillating steadily, with an average rising gradually, over the last one million years — long before human industry began to release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Opdyke is now at the University of Florida.
According to Shackleton and Opdyke’s data, average global temperatures have risen less than one degree in the last million years, though the amplitude of the periodic oscillation has now risen in that time from about 5 degrees to about 10 degrees, with a period of about 100,000 years.
“Today, we are simply near a peak in the current cycle that started about 25,000 years ago,” Essenhigh explained.
As to why highs and lows follow a 100,000 year cycle, the explanation Essenhigh uses is that the Arctic Ocean acts as a giant temperature regulator, an idea known as the “Arctic Ocean Model.” This model first appeared over 30 years ago and is well presented in the 1974 book Weather Machine: How our weather works and why it is changing, by Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist magazine.
According to this model, when the Arctic Ocean is frozen over, as it is today, Essenhigh said, it prevents evaporation of water that would otherwise escape to the atmosphere and then return as snow. When there is less snow to replenish the Arctic ice cap, the cap may start to shrink. That could be the cause behind the retreat of the Arctic ice cap that scientists are documenting today, Essenhigh said.
As the ice cap melts, the earth warms, until the Arctic Ocean opens again. Once enough water is available by evaporation from the ocean into the atmosphere, snows can begin to replenish the ice cap. At that point, the Arctic ice begins to expand, the global temperature can then start to reverse, and the earth can start re-entry to a new ice age.
According to Essenhigh’s estimations, Earth may reach a peak in the current temperature profile within the next 10 to 20 years, and then it could begin to cool into a new ice age.
Essenhigh knows that his scientific opinion is a minority one. As far as he knows, he’s the only person who’s linked global warming and carbon dioxide in this particular way. But he maintains his evaluations represent an improvement on those of the majority opinion, because they are logically rigorous and includes water vapor as a far more significant factor than in other studies.
“If there are flaws in these propositions, I’m listening,” he wrote in his Chemical Innovation paper. “But if there are objections, let’s have them with the numbers.”
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Meaning they are trying to make the most monetary gains out of our Country, so that they will have enough money to strengthen the possibility of their survival when the global climate calamity comes? Let’s see who are the quitters then, but guess it’ll be too late to do anything already. Good luck all.
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Carbon dioxide, the most widely discussed greenhouse gas, is part of earth’s vast store of carbon (about 150 billion tons), which is continually being cycled through the oceans, the atmosphere, and vegetation. The human contribution to atmospheric carbon in the form of CO2 is small, less than 5 percent of the total carbon reservoir
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Singapore being compared to Atlantis?
You have got to be kidding me!
Singapore is an island full of prostitutes and gambling dens and PRC mainlanders — hardly Atlantis.
Perhaps it would be best for the sea to swallow up Singapore and wipe away all the nonsense that is in Singapore, the old man, PAP, prostitutes, PRC main landers, corrupt ministers, LHL, his man-like wife, over-priced HDB pigeon holes, etc.
Wash it all away.
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Atlantis?, more likely the sunken city in med, when God strikes hard on it in biblical time, remains are found too and its “SIN” city.
Daft singaporeans will float, but FT’s and PR’s will fly.
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@rubbish!, I already said Sinkapore land has an average elevation of 2m so a rise in sea level of 1m – 2m won’t exactly sink Sinkapore 100% as there are higher grounds and whatnots.
The worst case scenario would be Sinkaporeans travelling in boats and sampans like some city in the world, partially submerged.
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Actually, native Singaporean– I’m talking about the local Malays, they are the wise ones.
The Malays had been living in Singapore for hundreds of yrs and built their houses on stilt.
If the British/Chinese had built houses the way the Malays did, even if the water level up another 2-3m. Life goes on.
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So is the report suggesting us to get out of Singapore before 2030? This is what i inferred after reading it.
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If these washout PAP leaders cannot solve flooding problems caused by a mere 100mm of rainfall, can you trust them to solve bigger climatic problems?
Someone please help. I have difficulty breathing as all my toes and 2 big balls just can’t stop laughing. The Tai Chi actions have already started with LHL, the President of PAP TAI CHI COMMITTEE clearly in control of the situation.
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Well…Atlantis did manage to anger poisedon or one of the major greek good…didn’t they? Well, SINgapore may be facing it soon
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I think Singapore has a very good team to cope with any eventualities arising due to climate change and the rise in sea level.
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Which talent should be honored the credits for the barrage?
Is the technology invented by singapore?
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The expert of Marina Barrage is MM Lee. Which experts dare to says otherwise?
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Propaganda to start carbon tax again? When is the next meeting? Singapore will replace those countries not cooperative in G20?
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must need to find out the policeman and question him
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When the whole world flooded by tropical storms and extra ordinary rain, all politicians blame our “longkang stuck”.
When you cannot even handle small cases like this and dreaming of talking about preventing sea rise? Total bullshit. Prove yourself within your terms between each elections first with capabilities to solve this real problems happen now.
Now I have my Taiji to pull you back to reality. Don’t waste our money for you to look at computer data and talk rubbish. This is the most cheapest work we have paid. Paid billion for some fortune teller and paid nuts to those hardworking labors that build up the countries. If they want to research go ahead with your own money and sell us the result and not predictions. In short, we don’t pay for your experiments.
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My friend, Marina Barrage isn’t a project to tackle global warming. It has nothing to do with global warming. You’ve got it wrong.
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No need to wait till end of the century – at the rate of these recent damaging floods,
(Please All Brotherhood, DONT use the words Flash Floods which the MSM used often which I object as these seems to conote that these floods are once in a 50 year occurences. NOW its SOOO Frequent – dont let MSM use hideous psychology to continue to brainwash us to accept THESE ARE INDEED once in a half century flash floods, balls to them!! And See, they introduced a new BLAME, Typhoon Concon sorry correct me!!),
they way OUR HIGHLY paid Engineers and ministers do their jobs and SHIRK their Responsibilities, in the next 5-10 years we can predict safely Rochore Canal will overflow, Alexandra Canal will overflow, Whampoa and Geyland Rivers etc etc will overflow, mark my words.
My sincere advice, future flat and house owners – Better Move to Higher Grounds, AND Pte flats developers – BETTER DONT BUILD UNDERGROUND CARPARKS and have 2 LEVELS OF VOIDS DECKS !!!!
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Few people have what I call “Real time consciousness”. So there is always a collective group of rather “naive” commentators who simply ‘fly-off” their opinions without proper information relating to comparatives AS WELL AS “CONTRASTING” which is even RARER.
But all you “Fear not Brutus” for sorts! As we ARE glad you contributed. As then we can share with you the realities as not everyone can fathom of even see 2-dimensionally often enough. Let alone for them to see 3-Dimensionally! So, you are NOT alone mate!
@Forecaster Extraordinarie IS right about @rubbish’s “rubbish that 1-2 metres will submerge ALL of our island. Bukit Timah HILL is 581 FT leh! Then My Faber? Pasir Panjang HILL? Sin Min area? Thomson Ridge?
And @atobe, they “realize” ONLY NOW and out of fear for the ALL the “glories” of their “earthly god” and pappaycheck master that can be lost!
NOW, I said ONLY NOW as they been building underground MRT Lines right! And the stations only have about 1-1.5 meter of elevation above ground or earth level! how will these MRT network survive a 3 meters sea level rise then?
AND! Mao Boo Tan SAID they have DONE their “homework” for UNDERGROUND living and shopping??????? Now you know too how BIG BRAGGERS those pappy-puppies TAKE AFTER lee kon you! “they” got konned by OVER HUGE pappaychecks right! bet you he’ll be the first to GET OUT of here at the first signs of flooding troubles to come!
But then earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, typhoons, hurricanes, twisters, floods, volcanic ashes and crude oil are Heaven’s DOs & DON’Ts WARNINGS to mankind’s Centric and Eccentric Affluent INDULGENT Self-righteousness! Mankind as a whole ONLY learn mostly through experience isn’t it! Still wanna believe THAT pap is “forward thinking in planning”? If they ARE, we WON’T need TR, TOC, Yawning Bread, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and other new age cyberspace ALTERNATIVE media in Singapore right?
And @Experts Experts Experts, how much of that lengthy piece of “Expert views” do you DECIPHER as believe WITH sound Learning, Understanding and Knowing enough? “EXPERTS” have absolutely no one TO REFUTE them UNTIL someone else does their category of research to DIFFER right? E.G.: An email has been going around that those small and not strong magnets people put on fridge doors can BE cancer causing? Due to “EXperiments” THE “experts” did with the food fed to mice “exposed to magnets”! Now, magnetic field DECAY by Physics Law call “Inverse Square Law? Meaning that magnetic fields decay “Inversely proportionally to the Square of the Distance from the source of the magnet field in the unit of GAUSS”!
So, how far are those now very strong magnetic pads, labels etc on a fridge door? Frankly few people put more than a couple of so of them there right! Use a non-stainless steel and non-magnetized screw driver blade with a wooden ruler and find out how far it will move even a little towards such a magnet! Not more than say 2.5cm or so I am sure!
And of Greenhouse effect due to CO2 or Carbon Dioxide true is or not? Few people are conscious why the area around plants are always cooler in the early evening and later? It’s the CO2 given out by plants. They give out oxygen in the day. It maintain the critical balance of about 21% oxygen and <1% or some 0.3% CO2 to 78% of INERT Nitrogen in the atmosphere! Why are the "new experts" so OBLIVIOUS TO THIS BALANCE?
I've worked with doctorates/PHDs who are so knuckleheads with basic principles and natural phenomenon and phenomena outside their narrowed speciality! They have forgotten general and special laws & principles learned in the 1st and 2nd college years that's why? Or put them on the back burner? How then we believe or not believe unless we are wiser about these things?
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@balanced realist, The Marina Barrage is NOT meant to solve Global Warming at all.
The Barrage deals with WATER control, in and out.
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@PAP Leaders to solve Climatic Problems?
July 18, 2010 at 11:08 am
They will suggest buying and selling carbon credits – another money spinner like the COE?
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Singapore will disappear and so the PAP. This is act of the god.
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Forecaster Extraordinarie:
July 18, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Control water in water out is correct. Control rising sea level isn’t correct. Marina Barrage is not targetted at rising sea level. You need Singapore Barrage (ie along our entire shoreline perimeter) for that.
Global warming transcends politics and even the human species. May God be merciful to mankind.
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How relaible is your article? Did you copy and paste from a source or is it your theory?
Now let me ask you a question, You said that the Marina Barrage was built to counter the effect of sea level rise. But the barriage is merely 0.3 km across!! There are several hundred of kilometere of coastline bordering Singapore!! Dam the 0.3km and you saved the coast locally for 0.3m, but water finds its own level, what about the rest of the coastline of the rest of Singapore!! I think we might have been conned by dutch consultants who have different situation.
I think the barrage is more for building a reservoir to make water to make singaporeans rid of dependence on Malaysian water. Also for green reasons to make the place look real nice and showcase to the world about conservation blah blah blah. But the authorities miscalculated and the gradient of the terrain is simply not sufficient to allow the full discharge of the rain water into the new basin so created, and moreover, the pillars are obstructing the free flow of water. Therefore even if all the gates are open,and the pump working to full speed, the rain water cannot drain out as well as if NO BARRAGE existed. Singapore with the barrage is different from singaproe without the barrage. And singapore without the barrage NEVER floods in just over an hour of heavy rain for the last 50 years.
DISHONEST government first blame it on blocked culverts, now they blame on typhoon. They should not treat citizens as fools and undeducated idiots. We have seen greater rains than what happend in the last two or three incidents, we not born yesterday or tranplanted from bangla or cina PR’s who don’t know how singapore was before the barrage.
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@balanced realist, correctly so, which is why I said: “…the Marina Barrage was built but it wasn’t meant to be an effective solution against sea level rises.”
It was actually MM Lee’s ‘thought’ that it can effectively keep out rising sea levels so he engaged the firm to ‘try’ to block rising sea levels. Please see my reply to Zero below for the full link.
@Zero, I did not made it up. PLease click on this link to the full article: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=nw20070423104830836C620972
AND I agree with your analysis on WHY the FLOOD in the 1st place although I would have opined that the BARRAGE actually CAUSED the flood instead of helping to ease it.
This article is NOT about the BARRAGE but the ‘warning’ of what COULD happen in the future and what MM Lee ‘thought’ was the solution.
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No need global warming to kill Singapore…. Our Govt with their intention to build nuclear power stations will already kill Singapore. They already know where to put the nuclear power station. Remember the casinos (also planned a long long time ago). Cannot be suddenly they decide here let’s build the Casinos. Eventually it’s possible that Singapore will be sold to China everything we own from our Military technology to people will go to them at little or no cost.
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so if Singapore is to be in bad nick with these rising sea levels, what about little Bermuda in the Atlantic? highest point 76 meters / 249 feet …..
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善有善报 恶有恶报 不是不报 时候未到
Singapore
so call a country or company
will soon be found in history book only and under the sea.
Sad to see this place turning to evil.
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If that is the case, we need to mobilise now to do the global warming flood control, rather than waiting for disaster to come. We need to do what we need ourselves. Time to gather the talents for this, and plan FAST.
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@Hohoho, this is quite true, no need to wait so long for Sinkapore to ’sink’.
A few hours of rain already can flood so many places, come monsoon season, rain a few days, Sinkapore already sibei ’steam’ already.
Sinkaporeans will be spending their Christmas and New Year on sampans.
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http://moneycentral.msn.com/ownership?Holding=Institutional+Ownership&Symbol=BP
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/136466
Goldman Sach. Now Goldman cannot hide anymore. First is Lehman Brother snd now BP oil leak – all events with link to big amount of money.
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Is this the way to handle this problem? Hahahahahahaha…
No wonder it becomes a mess… Sigh~
Hahahahahahahahahahaha…
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Good news for Singaporean… New Government initiative at next GE…. PAP will annonce that All Singaporean can now use their CPF monies to buy ‘HDB made boats’at subsidized rates after inflating with huge markups. Only ‘HDB bosts can be parked at HDB carparks which will progessive be converted into boat-parks…
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Wah rise 2 to 5 m in a few decades time!
It will mean the whole Jurong Island will be submerged. Maybe all the reclaimed land along ECP and the new Marina Bay Financial District. Also plus the Sentosa Island and the whole row of bungalow lots along Sentosa Cove.
We better start to build the Great Wall of Singapore to protect the whole island and prevent the water from coming in.
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Not to worry, the prediction that Singapore will become the Venice of the East is happening sooner than ever before!!
The writings are in the water oop sorry walls!!
Well we still have our IRs to bring in curious tourists to gamble and to see how miracles can happen in Singapore!!
Time to invest in gondolas??
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Flood – happened once 50 years – forgotten whom said that, haha!
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Do you know folks once most of the main undersea circulation mechanisms start shutting down…and with the sun solistic going into hibernation mode again this century…as well as the recent planetary atmosphere contraction in march…
We are actually looking at another ice age.
Not good.
And here i am hoping mankind will be able to reach the stars…but too bad…most of our best and brightest more interested in making money finitely to the detriment of infinite gains. In the end, the kids and kids future kids will literally paid with their lives due to this generation and past generation idiotic policies.
Sad.
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It is strange to me that nobody ask how tough the economi struggle will be within the next 5 years – if we stay on current course – and maybe economically collapsed inside 10 years from now. The world’s economic landscape is changing so fast.
I won’t be worrying of Singapore’s physical future in 100 years if I live that long.
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BY THE END OF THIS CENTRUY,ONLY THE FILTHY RICH WILL INHABIT THIS LAND AT THE RATE THEY KEEP PUSHING TRU BLU SINGAPOREANS OUT.
IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE THESE FILTHY RICH AND POWERFUL IN DEEP SHIT!
BY THEN,THEY CAN BLAME EACH OTHER FOR ALL WE CARE!
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IT’S GOING to get hotter in Singapore.
The average daily temperature in Singapore could rise by between 2.7 deg C and 4.2 deg C from the current average of 26.8 deg C by 2100, Parliament was told on Monday.
The mean sea level around Singapore could also rise by 24 cm to 65 cm, according to a study commissioned by the National Environment Agency, which involved both local and foreign experts.
Environment and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim disclosed this in Parliament when responding to questions from MPs on the recent floods in Singapore.
He said the NEA study aimed at better understanding Singapore’s long term vulnerabilities to climate change.
Two MPs – Ms Irene Ng of Tampines GRC and Ms Penny Low of Pasir-Ris-Punggol GRC – asked if the recent flash floods were a result of global warming climate change, and if Singapore was prepared for this.
Replying, Dr Yaacob said while there was no conclusive link, the authorities were aware of the challenge of climate change and are closely monitoring long-term rainfall trends in Singapore.
‘As climate science is a complex and evolving subject, we will continue to improve our understanding as more information and data become available and climate change models become more robust,’ he said.
‘This will allow us to incorporate the latest scientific understanding on the potential impact of climate change into our infrastructure planning considerations.’
He added that NEA is expanding it capabilities in climate science through collaborations with well known climate institutes and the World Meteorological Organisation.
The Ministry of National Development, on its part, is also leading an inter-agency Adaptation Taskforce to review the sufficiency of Singapore’s measures and identify additional steps, he said.
P/S: I already said that DAYS AGO!
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anonymous:
July 20, 2010 at 3:24 pm
you are right to note that.
even now,too many singaporeans are sufferring.
the spurious increases in gdp does not neccessitate to real lasting economic growth per se.
this govt is just too myopic to merely concentrate all resources to prop up their own weakened case at the expense of our nation.
we need sincere good leaders who care about this country and its citizens’ future to take charge.
at the moment,things are already somewhat out of hand,with FTAs that lead to displacement of our own workers in order to fulfill some idiotic FTA TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
our govt must not merely sign FTAs for feel good,look good reason but for more compelling reason that also consider the well-being of its citizens.
we need strong minds,not merely strong hands that merely bully their own people for their own selfish ends.
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I want to thank my God for creating me at this time.
Those who have grandchilds must quickly go apologize to them for that trouble.
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Then all condo and HDB flats in Singapore can boast of sea view. No more exclusive sea view. Landed home will then be cheaper than high rise flat due to rising sea level.
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The rich people of Singapore stay at the Central and East areas of Singapore. Water indeed symbolises wealth, therefore water all floods to Central and East areas.
The poor people of Singapore at the other cheaper estates in North and West areas are spared the water.
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There were bad omens.
Lightning strike Merlion and Singapore Flyer!
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Seriously, only average and poor singkies will be affected by flodding problem…the PAPAyas, who will still be receiving pensions after they leave their multi-million job, will be joining their children who are mostly residing in other countries… so, flodding or no flooding, life still goes on for those on the receiving end of tax payers money. TO all those who support the papayas, unless you get to share the benefit, else, you are just one of the most daft people around !!!
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