>”Due to relative sea level rise, extreme sea level events that occurred once per century in the recent past are projected to occur at least annually at more than half of all tide gauge locations by 2100 and risks for coastal ecosystems, people and infrastructure will continue to increase beyond 2100,” it said in a report last year. And remember the OPW’s risk assessment analysis is for Dublin only. Experts say parts of Cork and Limerick and other areas are more at risk and could potentially suffer more damage
The flooding at Middleton happened when the tide was out which saved a lot of the town. It could have easily been a lot worse
Is it all a scam? Been hearing about the end of the world now for decades.
Looks like O’Connell street just got safer to walk down.
It wasn’t all the building on the floodplains, was it?..
When the flood waters come the eejits currently blaming “the government” for our meager climate change policies as too much will invariably blame “the government” for not doing enough.
Opposing public transport, cycle lanes, wind towers has consequence
Personally I blame the government 🙄
The smart man buys a house on a hill.
Met Eireann has no flood warning system which would work on data of river and water table levels. It’s indicative of how little we are even thinking about future weather effects.
Us Irish built the whole of the western world. We’ll ne fine.
You would think knowing this information that planning permission to all new builds in affected areas in Dublin and other areas would be screwed, but no, building and planning is going ahead, even Eamonn Ryan said Dublin port should be earmarked for regeneration for housing, talk about putting the cart before the horse, it begs belief that housing is going ahead in areas that are likely to be getting flooded in the next 50 years, and the main man himself is oblivious to the risks involved.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
It is a good time to invest in flood defence
This will fall on deaf ears followed by comments demanding that councils clean the drains and dredge more rivers. I’ve given up caring about this issue tbh. We don’t want or have the capacity to change.
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This is the most worrying part of the article.
>”Due to relative sea level rise, extreme sea level events that occurred once per century in the recent past are projected to occur at least annually at more than half of all tide gauge locations by 2100 and risks for coastal ecosystems, people and infrastructure will continue to increase beyond 2100,” it said in a report last year. And remember the OPW’s risk assessment analysis is for Dublin only. Experts say parts of Cork and Limerick and other areas are more at risk and could potentially suffer more damage
The flooding at Middleton happened when the tide was out which saved a lot of the town. It could have easily been a lot worse
Is it all a scam? Been hearing about the end of the world now for decades.
Looks like O’Connell street just got safer to walk down.
It wasn’t all the building on the floodplains, was it?..
When the flood waters come the eejits currently blaming “the government” for our meager climate change policies as too much will invariably blame “the government” for not doing enough.
Opposing public transport, cycle lanes, wind towers has consequence
Personally I blame the government 🙄
The smart man buys a house on a hill.
Met Eireann has no flood warning system which would work on data of river and water table levels. It’s indicative of how little we are even thinking about future weather effects.
UCC had a go on a local level but this is 12 years old.
https://www.ucc.ie/en/hydromet/floodwarningsys/
Us Irish built the whole of the western world. We’ll ne fine.
You would think knowing this information that planning permission to all new builds in affected areas in Dublin and other areas would be screwed, but no, building and planning is going ahead, even Eamonn Ryan said Dublin port should be earmarked for regeneration for housing, talk about putting the cart before the horse, it begs belief that housing is going ahead in areas that are likely to be getting flooded in the next 50 years, and the main man himself is oblivious to the risks involved.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
It is a good time to invest in flood defence
This will fall on deaf ears followed by comments demanding that councils clean the drains and dredge more rivers. I’ve given up caring about this issue tbh. We don’t want or have the capacity to change.