For those who can get BBC iPlayer - Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami ?

[dipsydoodle]

Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami?, BBC Two, review - from last week I assume.

Calm was the last thing that Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami? (BBC Two) was trying to create. Instead the objective of this imagined staging of a super wave hitting Europe and America appeared to be the creation of enough fear to have paranoid survivalists fleeing up the nearest mountain to barricade themselves in. What else was this Hollywood-style, CGI-heavy bad dream with hysterical voice-over and tribal wailing trying to achieve? Understanding for the real survivors of the real tsunamis that really killed 200,000 people and devastated the Indian Ocean region in 2004? Or the even more recently traumatised victims of this natural horror show in Japan? I hadn’t detected a world sympathy deficit following these events, and use of real footage of the carnage from those disasters mixed up with fantasy sequences seemed gratuitous.

Was it therefore to make us sit up and take notice of the scientists warning us that a small Canary Island could well collapse and trigger a wave big enough to pound across Europe and increase in magnitude as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean to wipe out the Caribbean and East Coast of the USA? If so, I’m sure self-interest resulted in half the audience turning off at the point where we were told London would be fine, Brighton might have a bit of “disruption” and America might not be prepared because New Yorkers famously didn’t take warnings seriously. Worse, was the conclusion to this hysterical piece of science fantasy: as Japan showed us, you couldn’t do anything to prepare for a tsunami anyway. This was a frightening vision I’d sooner forget.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10004693/Could-We-Survive-a-Mega-Tsunami-BBC-Two-review.html

Direct iPlayer link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s0zqv/Could_We_Survive_a_MegaTsunami/

Its on Youtube too but not sure how long before BBC get it deleted :

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. The volcanic island of La Palma will someday split and half the

island will slide into the Atlantic causing a wave of monstrous size that will cross the ocean at 700mph and destroy every city on the East Coast of America.

[JayhawkSD]

2. Well, what it actually said was...

The volcanic island of La Palma might someday split and half the island could perhaps slide into the Atlantic maybe causing a wave which could be of monstrous size that might make it across the ocean at 700mph (or maybe 10mpn, who knows) and destroy every city on the East Coast of America or maybe only get them wet.

I only watched the first part of it, and I lost count of the speculative qualifiers.

"It's easy to imagine that..."
"This could be the..."
"It could have been caused by..."
"We might be looking at..."

This is junk science at its very worst.