> At 09:18 15-5-01 -0300, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> >Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm writing from The Netherlands, and yes, last time I checked
> > > that was in Europe. :)
> > >
> >It's a reasonable doubt. With the Global Warming, nl might
> >turn from a part of Europe to a part of the Atlantic Ocean
>
> Actually, NL would not become a part of the Atlantic Ocean, but a part of
> the North Sea (unless the sea level rises so much that the UK and Ireland
> completely disappear(*), and the North Sea itself becomes part of the
> Atlantic Ocean).
>
> (*) Not everyone in Europe believes *that* would be a bad thing...
Oy!!! <sets attack bulldog on Jerry> <watches Jerry avoid it easily> Hmmm,
short squat ugly dogs don't make good attack dogs. <grumble>
Seriously, though, It would take a pretty monumental sea rise to flood even
the south of England. The Fens, the London Basin and parts of the Weald
would be under water or turned into salt marsh (returned to be accurate, the
whole English Channel was salt marsh during the last Ice Age.) Even a rise
of 20 metres wouldn't Flood my old house in Wimbledon though. Make trips to
the seaside a lot easier though.
<vision of playing with bucket and spade on new beach next to Westminster>
> Guess we'll just have to build even higher dikes. BTW, if it
> wasn't for our
> dikes, about a third of the country would already be part of the
> North Sea.
And has been before. A lot of the Netherlands was flooded in WW2, IIRC.
Charlie
