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I live in the Netherlands, where a significant area is below sea level. While the safety of your house is relevant, I think the bigger question is what would ha

by ar-jan 7y ago

I live in the Netherlands, where a significant area is below sea level. While the safety of your house is relevant, I think the bigger question is what would happen to the economy and infrastructure. That said, I think current alarmist predictions of rising sea levels are overblown, and the change for, say, the next 100 years will be manageable.

GlobalChange 7y ago
The Dutch are my "thermometer" for oceans rising, when they start buying real estate in Switzerland, then I'll worry. As for now, there's no evidence whatsoever of oceans rising or any change that could in any way be deemed as out of natural variations. Besides, if (and that's a really big if) oceans eventually start to rise, we'll be already facing problems way worse. People would already have been displaced by other reasons, so that's actually not very high on the worry list. It is worth to remind some climate hysterics that costal cities would have to eventually change anyway, erosion is constant, even earthquakes or the more slower tectonic movement would eventually alter coastlines and continents. Honestly, alien invasion comes way higher on my list than oceans rising…