I was sitting on the edge of my chair reading this article because I know that what happens in one country will soon follow through to my country.

We should stop worrying about Nuclear holocaust and start worrying about carbon monoxide… and the atmosphere.

Crazy isn’t it?

Jay’s Saving Your Money

Now, I noticed that all those areas that he showed on the film are all either connected to a continent or are the coastal parts of a large land mass.

Contrast it to tiny Sinagpore, which is an island surrounded by water : If the worst case scenario he painted really happened, then we would have water flooding in from all directions ; from the South ,the West and the East,where water from the sea will come in and from the north, where water flowed from the sea into straits of Johor will then flood in from the North.

At this point , I maybe accused of being alarmist in my views . But ,due to the perculiar situation our island state is in ,I think I would rather err on the danger side.

My point is this: Shanghai , Beijing, New York, San Francisco bay area, etc , with big land mass connected , would be a lesser disaster,because , they can simply moved inland to higher ground and rebuild their cities .
Although the initial losses maybe great, but , they can recover from it. They have a fall back position, owing to their big land mass.

If such event were to happen to Singapore , where do we go to ?

I would imagine that large areas of our island would be flooded.
Our industrial areas would be gone, so does our airport, our port , our shipyards and our residential areas.

How do we begin to recover from it, when there is no more land underneath us?

I do hoped that what I have written here will not happened .

Then, what will become of Singapore?

Is most of Singapore going to be submerged under water permanently ?

Are we going to become refugees in neighbouring , higher land elevation countries ?

Will they accept us ? How will their locals treat us?

How are we going to make a living then?

Will our huge national reserves be used to help our people? Or , where might they be used?

If the hypothetical question is a real possibility, what preparations are in progress now ?

Do we still go on with our typical Singaporean’s “proud ” attitude towards others today ?

I think we have to think about such things , because global climate crisis is already happening . And if the worst case scenario really happens , then the survival of all Singaporeans is at stake , no matter which party you supported in the last election. Because , there won’t be another Singapore there for you to hold elections.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/the-ipcc-sea-level-numbers/

For one thing, that 59cm does not include the contribution of “future rapid dynamical changes in ice flow”, which could be substantial. It also, of course, doesn’t make any predictions beyond the end of this century… and presumably if people are buying anything other than 99yr leasehold property, they should be interested in whether their property will be flooded after that :-)