… Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Dam Right Across the North Sea
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research / February 28, 2020A 475-km-long dam between the north of Scotland and the west of Norway and another one of 160 km between the west point of France and the southwest of England could protect more than 25 million Europeans against the consequences of an expected sea level rise of several metres over the next few centuries. The costs, 250-500 billion euros, are ‘merely’ 0.1% of the gross national product, annually over 20 years, of all the countries that would be protected by such a dam. That’s what Dr. Sjoerd Groeskamp, oceanographer at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, calculated . . .
The authors acknowledge that the consequences of this dam for North Sea wildlife would be considerable. “The tide would disappear in a large part of the North Sea, and with it the transport of silt and nutrients. The sea would eventually even become a freshwater lake. That will drastically change the ecosystem and therefore have an impact on the fishing industry as well,” Groeskamp elaborates.
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Ultimately, the description of this extreme dam is more of a warning than a solution, Groeskamp states. “The costs and the consequences of such a dam are huge indeed. However, we have calculated that the cost of doing nothing against sea level rise will ultimately be many times higher. This dam makes it almost tangible what the consequences of the sea level rise will be; a sea level rise of 10 metres by the year 2500 according to the bleakest scenarios. This dam is therefore mainly a call to do something about climate change now. If we do nothing, then this extreme dam might just be the only solution.”
Dam you, Greta!
Hummmmm, it looks like the east coast of England and all of Ireland is expendable.
Never eat soggy waffles.
So do they have enough back up little dutch boys in case of dam breaches?
That’s a lot of concrete.
It seems to me there is a lot to be said for that even if Global Warming is a hoax. If this were done, Europe would have a fresh water lake and never have to worry again about drinking water. I also think it is a pretty good idea to dam off the Golden Gate and turn the San Francisco Bay into a fresh water lake.
I’m fer it.
It’ll be budgeted at around 500 billion euros. They’d start it and after a week it would be 3 years behind and 400 billion over budget.
You know, sort of California’s high speed rail writ large. Really large.
After 10 years and 1.3 trillion, there’d be a gazillion tons of concrete that can’t use salt water in the channel and it’ll be all global worming’s fault.
Should be entertaining while we wait for the next serious war.
Hey, as long as the American taxpayer aren’t on the hook for it, knock yerself out I say.
What makes you think we won’t be footing a good portion of the bill? We’d probably end up paying more than the Europeans because as everyone knows…Global Warming™ is all the fault of the Americans.
I think we won’t. I hope we won’t.
Can someone please tell me WHAT Global Climate Change Prediction made in the last FIFTY YEARS has COME TRUE?
You’d have to ask Greta that question.