h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...one of the world's leading prophets of doom, gloom and destruction is my old university, UEA Norwich.

UEA's Climactic Research Unit is a world-leader in issues of climate change and research (in my day it was a mere budding ofshoot of the School of Environmental Sciences)

what bugs me is that one chillingly plausible scenario for global warming involves the idea of East Anglia, in its entirity, twinning itself with Atlantis and the Lost Continents of Mu and Lemuria. I'm nit sure of the science involved, but the idea appears to be that as the Arctic is relieved of its cargo of ice, and springs up, other low-lying areas of land will be pulled down underneath a rising sea level to compensate, something like shifting weights around that famous rubber mat (evidently moonlighting from its other job of explaining the space-time continuum).

Now if Norwich, Norfolk, is at Ground Zero for any serious climate changes, it seems a bloody odd place to bung the academic department that seeks to explain and predict climate changes...

I have an instinct that the CRU can be used much as a canary in a coalmine for this. As long as it remains in Norwich, at zero above sea level - no danger.

The moment it relocates to, say, the University of the Scottish Highlands - start worrying!