Dubai To Build The Worlds Tallest

[emmie]

skyscraper, supposedly a city to house nearly half a million people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-42568970/dubai-to-build-new-record-breaking-skyscraper

[emmie]

what happens as David Attenborough predicts the seas get higher, won;t this wipe out places like Dubai..

[Islay]

//what happens as David Attenborough predicts the seas get higher, won;t this wipe out places like Dubai//

And most of East Anglia - but it has no stopped them building - you can't put life on hold for something that may happen several generations down the line!

[emmie]

his report on Blue Planet 11 was quite alarming, perhaps his warning should be heeded by those building on the coastal waters.

[Rtaxron]

Will they start this before or after, they have sold, or leased the hundreds of apartments, Villas, office spaces that are still empty in tower blocks, and The World offshore islands projects, that are not all occupied yet?

[emmie]

apparently its already being built..

[youngmafbog]

David Attenborough has an agenda(Global warming or whatever the phrase today is), he is also not a scientist as some would like to think.

As Islay says, you cannot put things on hold for something that may happen (and MAY happen way into the future).

[ToraToraTora]

even if sea levels do rise, we'll just build defences, eg a lot of the Netherlands is below sea level. Dubai, has the dosh to build whatever is necessary to protect it from sea rises.

[emmie]

I don't see david attenborough as having an agenda. What he says makes perfect sense.

[goodgoalie]

YMB, why do you say David Attenborough 'isn't a scientist'? He has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University!

[youngmafbog]

A degree does not make him a scientist.

[youngmafbog]

//What he says makes perfect sense.//

Remember con men say things that make perfect sense, it's how they make their living.

And no I am not saying DA is a con man just that because someone says something that may make perfect sense to once person doesnt mean it is real or make perfect sense to another.

[bednobs]

what does make someone a scientist?

[douglas9401]

Early start on the grog today we see.

[youngmafbog]

bednobs, in my time I have interviews many grads, I was part of a board that did it for one of the biggest Banks in the world. I can assure you that although students with degrees think they know it all they certainly dont. For instance I interviewed many for IT, they could code but they were not programmers.

[EcclesCake]

A new graduate is somewhat different to an established, proven professional.

[ToraToraTora]

"what does make someone a scientist? " - well doing science for a start!

[emmie]

this isn't about DA, much as i like him, i do believe in climate change and that in years to come we will see the effects of that change.. I was particularly commenting on the fact that Dubai are building yet another taller skyscraper,

[douglas9401]

Dubai's thinkers are clearly at odds with the massive brains in North Lanarkshire where another BIG IDEA is in the process of having cash thrown at it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42418148

[ichkeria]

I thought the Kingdom Tower was going to dwarf Burj Khalifa

[mikey4444]

YMB....when you start to attack David Attenborough, you are really dredging the bottom of the barrel.