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| Pemalite said: Is there an engineering solution to possibly mitigate those events? Clearly they did so 20 years ago after raising levies... But obviously that needs to be looked into again. Because lets face it... The current situation in climate is here to stay, things will not improve, so the world-over needs to be proactive and start mitigating these effects. |
There is a crazy idea to dam the entire North Sea, between the UK and France and UK to Norway. But that's an extreme 'solution' more as a warning of what it will have to come to if things keep going the way they are. That of course only ensures that the sea level remains low enough that the water can get out to 'sea'.
The solutions for the rivers are to sacrifice more land to controlled flooding and further raising the dykes. Perhaps extra flood canals can help but space is at a premium in the Netherlands, not a lot of room for mega projects.
Yet without dykes and 1m sea level rise
Half the country will be under water.
I moved to Canada in 2002, not my problem anymore lol. However houses are not build here with tornadoes in mind and tornado warnings are happening about every few weeks now. It certainly wasn't like that when I first got here. It's either forest fires, rivers flooding or just from extreme rainfall, or getting blown away... Mother nature will go on no matter what, but we sure pissed her off.
