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Global Warming: Want to see if your house will be flooded? | 19 comments (19 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Global Warming: Want to see if your house will (none / 0)

Can't alter a poll. I realized there was no answer after I clicked on submit.

I just don't see Miami or New Orleans coming out of this ok. And the Netherlands, what happens when the Zuiderzee wall is breach, and the North Sea can batter the Dutch coast?

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu May 4th, 2006 at 03:08:53 PM EST
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Re: Global Warming: Want to see if your house will (none / 0)

I said some leeway - meaning that a densely populated urban area in a wealthy country would probably be protected if global warming left it a little bit under sea level e.g. NO and much of the Netherlands right now - but not infinite protection. I don't know enough about Miami's situation to say, but yes, NO's and Holland's long term future seem bleak.

by MarekNYC on Thu May 4th, 2006 at 03:46:29 PM EST
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Re: Global Warming: Want to see if your house will (none / 0)

9 meters, and I live in the Netherlands. You are quite right that a prosperous and densely populated country like the Netherlands can afford huge dikes, after all, that's how we do it now. Building a sea-wall of sufficient size along the whole coastline is possible, just expensive. An increased water flow in the rivers, especially the Rhine, might be a more difficult problem.

by bastiaan on Sat May 6th, 2006 at 07:09:27 PM EST
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Global Warming: Want to see if your house will be flooded? | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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