{"id":4376,"date":"2010-05-02T04:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2010-05-02T04:27:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T04:27:46","slug":"melting-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/melting-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting away in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/newyork-under-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4377\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/newyork-under-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/newyork-under-water.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/newyork-under-water-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a>Some predict that as the polar ice caps melt major cities such as London, <a href=\"http:\/\/nlc-echs-grouptwo.co.uk\/melting_ice_caps.aspx\">New York <\/a>and Bangkok will be flooded.<\/p>\n<p>How are we to determine if such a future is in store? And how quickly it might become reality?<\/p>\n<p>To understand the likelihood of such an event, and perhaps how quickly it might be likely to occur &#8211;\u00a0some understanding of the historical\u00a0 and contemporary <a href=\"http:\/\/clasticdetritus.com\/2007\/12\/02\/sea-floor-sunday-6-hudson-shelf-valley\/\">geological setting <\/a>of the cities is useful.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the continent of Britain was formed some 200,000 years ago during a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6904675.stm\">megaflood<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p>What is happening today? Does the eruption of the <a href=\"http:\/\/clasticdetritus.com\/2010\/04\/18\/sea-floor-sunday-63-bathymetric-maps-in-vicinity-of-eyjafjallajokull-volcano\/\">Eyjafjallajokull<\/a> volcano have any relevance for Londoners apart from air traffic disruption?<\/p>\n<p>(Geology experts most welcome to comment!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some predict that as the polar ice caps melt major cities such as London, New York and Bangkok will be flooded. How are we to determine if such a future is in store? And how quickly it might become reality? To understand the likelihood of such an event, and perhaps how quickly it might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}