Feb
Good news! One third of the Netherlands suddenly rises above sea level
If rising sea levels from global warming can drown whole islands, what could the rising pressure of more water do, smashing against the dykes of the Netherlands? Oh, the horror! After all, 65% of their National Domestic Product is produced in the 55% of the Netherlands that is below sea level. Why, that would….
Oops…hold on.
What’s this? The national statistics office says just 20% of the country is below sea level and 19% of the GDP is earned there? Well, where the hell did we get the bigger, more frightening numbers?
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC report, that’s where.
Is this getting just too funny or what? It is to us, but it’s not to environment minister Jacqueline Cramer, who apparently took those UN nuts at their word. “I am very disturbed,” environment minister Jacqueline Cramer told MPs. “I do not wish to accept any more mistakes.”
The MP’s said this mistake was “shocking.” Some suggested that they delay plans for dyke strengthening. (What, don’t they work out?)
So, how did the error come about? The IPPC added to the total the area which is not under sea level, but could be vulnerable to flooding. You see, it’s scarier that way.
Source: Dutch News
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Thanks for sharing this!
I’ll sleep better tonight… I know good people in the Netherlands, I was worried for them after reading the IPCC report.
So much mental anguish caused by the IPCC. Is this grounds for a Class Action Suit?
These “isolated” incidents are becoming rather “unisolated”.. The upshot for some will be: “with all of these errors, why should we believe *any* of AR4?”
Dave N is right. The IPCC’s AR4 contains so many “isolated incidents” and “we are only human errors” that it falls into the category of work known to science as crap. Crap has been around for many, many years and will without doubt continue to play a crucial role in the scientific journy of discovery. Crap is so central to human progress that it has it’s own prestigeous award known as the Nobel Peace Prize. You will hear the gold metal clanging on the porcelain as this particular load of crap is flushed.
You mean the Maldivians will have to hold their Parliament on dry land full of CO2?
You mean 4.5 million dollars Gore Condo in San Francisco will not drown under water?
Tere will be snow atop the Kilimanjaro?