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Where will the Dutch go?
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<blockquote data-quote="Danllan" data-source="post: 7439806" data-attributes="member: 8735"><p>First, I'm not over-stating this and being neither poof nor urbanite, I don't and will never 'chillax'... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite39" alt=":yuck:" title="Yuck :yuck:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":yuck:" /> But will have a relaxing beer or peg as appropriate to season. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p><p></p><p>Second, you must be mathematically competent, so tell us... what is the additional force any flood defence will have to withstand from a rise of just one foot in global sea level? And that's just a minimal rise, what about storm surges and - probable horror to come sooner or later - when that bit of Noway drops off, even if it's just a tine percentage of what's likely?</p><p></p><p>Of course, there is a chance that cold fusion or some such will be discovered soon and we can lock up all the carbon and start re-freezing the poles. But failing that, the melt will continue and accelerate, that triggers clathrate release which expedites the process, it's circular, it isn't really going to stop and we both have young children who'll see this in their lifetimes.</p><p></p><p>Don't misunderstand me, in the long term - geological time, that is - it's an irrelevance, it's happened before and will happen again, nature will die-out / adapt and things will carry on - I'm not a human-egoist, we'll be mere footnotes in the end. But on the human timescale this is serious and does matter; the Dutch may be able to give themselves a few extra decades, possibly, and delay the inevitable; but other places won't and regardless of where we are in the world it will have a major effect on our children, and theirs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Danllan, post: 7439806, member: 8735"] First, I'm not over-stating this and being neither poof nor urbanite, I don't and will never 'chillax'... :yuck: But will have a relaxing beer or peg as appropriate to season. (y) Second, you must be mathematically competent, so tell us... what is the additional force any flood defence will have to withstand from a rise of just one foot in global sea level? And that's just a minimal rise, what about storm surges and - probable horror to come sooner or later - when that bit of Noway drops off, even if it's just a tine percentage of what's likely? Of course, there is a chance that cold fusion or some such will be discovered soon and we can lock up all the carbon and start re-freezing the poles. But failing that, the melt will continue and accelerate, that triggers clathrate release which expedites the process, it's circular, it isn't really going to stop and we both have young children who'll see this in their lifetimes. Don't misunderstand me, in the long term - geological time, that is - it's an irrelevance, it's happened before and will happen again, nature will die-out / adapt and things will carry on - I'm not a human-egoist, we'll be mere footnotes in the end. But on the human timescale this is serious and does matter; the Dutch may be able to give themselves a few extra decades, possibly, and delay the inevitable; but other places won't and regardless of where we are in the world it will have a major effect on our children, and theirs. [/QUOTE]
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