• Question: how big will england be in ten years

    Asked by chloe1998 to Damien on 13 Jun 2011.
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      Damien Hall answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hi @chloe1998!

      I think you really need to ask a geologist about that (geology literally means ‘earth science’), as they’re the people who study rising sea-levels and stuff – which could make England bigger or (probably) smaller. Here’s a cool-looking website that could help you work it out, though:

      http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=48.3416,14.6777&z=13&m=7

      It shows you maps, and you put in how much you think the sea-level will rise by, and then it shows you how that would affect the size of different countries. For the Earth, though, ten years isn’t any time at all (compared to the billions of years since the planet was formed!) – so my guess is that in only ten years we won’t see much difference. In fifty or a hundred years, though, we could!

      What I love about my subject is how it helped me know exactly what geology meant – because I knew the Greek words that it came from. The Ancient Greeks were doing science thousands of years before anyone in this country!

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