{"id":2222,"date":"2007-08-26T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2007-08-26T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T10:15:58","slug":"not-what-you-call-reassuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Not what you call reassuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Asked whether he thought London would flood in the next 25 years, Mr Woolas said: &#8220;It may do. The environment agency are doing a feasibility study. When the Thames Barrier was built it was built on the assumption that there was a one in 2,000 year chance that London would flood. That estimate now is one in 1,000 years. In other words from 1983 to today the probability has doubled.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the <a href = \"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=1DXXZFQVQATBPQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2007\/08\/26\/nthames126.xml\"><i>Telegraph<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story appears to confirm that the government is planning a new Thames barrier, east of the current one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked whether he thought London would flood in the next 25 years, Mr Woolas said: &#8220;It may do. The environment agency are doing a feasibility study. When the Thames Barrier was built it was built on the assumption that there was a one in 2,000 year chance that London would flood. That estimate now is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}