Hi John there is a documemted methane hydrate Europ tsunami risk.

Practically all world govts large and small are invested in mining methane hydrate for natural gas as the next big fossil fuel bonanza.

The universal govt denial of the Arctic climate planetary emergency is largely because of the methane hydrate development agenda. 

 
Peter C

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From: "John Nissen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 8:30:15 AM
Subject: Mega-tsunami in N Atlantic and denial of life-threats

Hi all,

Did anybody watch the programme last night on BBC2?  I watched it today 
online.  The mega-tsunami would be so large that nothing could prevent 
the loss of a vast number of lives.

It only mentioned one source of tsunami, from the Canary Islands, but 
there's also a source from the Greenland Ice Sheet, if a chunk of that 
slid into the sea.  Potentially, it could produce a tsunami of one or 
two orders of magnitude larger!  There is geological evidence that 
chunks of ice sheet/dome have slid off in the past, creating giant 
icebergs which crossed the North Atlantic, depositing material as far as 
the coast of France.

The threat to the UK was rediculously underplayed, with Brighton and 
Bournemouth being the only towns specifically mentioned for damage, and 
London assumed to be safe.  The Bristol Channel would funnel the 
tsunami, producing much more damage than the tsunami that occurred there 
a few centuries ago.  The nuclear reactor sites in the channel (about 7 
of them) have never been considered for defence against a mega-tsunami.

One interesting point from the US was that, if there were an advance 
warning, half the population would go into denial and not take any notice.

This is the same denial as we are seeing from global warming - and more 
specifically from Arctic warming.  We have had wake-up calls for action, 
as the sea ice retreated dramatically to a record minimum in 2007 and 
with another downward plunge last year, and on course for near zero sea 
ice in September 2015.  With the loss of sea ice causing warming of the 
Arctic far above the global average, the jet stream behaviour is 
disrupted and we are experiencing weather extremes that can only get 
worse [1].  This is climate change writ large.  Yet the government and 
government advisers are in denial.  No action is proposed which could 
possibly have a significant effect on the necessary timescale to 
remediate the situation - and adaptation is absurd - as it is for a 
mega-tsunami!

Cheers,

John

[1] 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/07/science-behind-britain-coldest-easter