How about we just stop melting the icecaps? Much easier solution.
What about sea traffic though?
What about Ireland, Iceland and west coast of UK? Will they sink or am I missing something? I don’t want anyone to sink 🙁
We could build so many new polders if this plan succeeds! Death to the ocean!!
What are the red dots for? They’re not capital cities, there’s a seemingly random one in the Midlands of England, both Edinburgh and Glasgow are dotted…
Wouldn’t this destroy fisheries?
What about the fish? Won’t someone please thinking the fish.
And submarines, won’t someone please be thinking the poor submarines.
Fixing the climate might be cheaper…
This will not only affect coastal cities in a positive (perhaps also negative) way. It will effectively mitigate any Russian threat from the Baltic sea. As EU and it’s allies can effectively control the entire north sea and ever single vessel that ships through it.
It would be a massive geopolitical change. Russia ain’t going to like this one.
Britain would no longer be an island nation and entirely open to invasion by the Dutch.
Fennoscandia has a pretty significant post-glacial rebound. Finland, for example, is growing about seven square kilometers per year. So, we NO NEED.
Maybe someone tell conservatives this wouldn’t be needed if they had invested in becoming energy neutral instead of fossil fuels.
Instead here we are looking at a multi trillion dollar investment to mitigate effects of climate change.
This might actually be necessary in the future, because Denmark will be fucked if sea level rises even moderately.
Never going to happen , depends on collaboration with the UK.
How are they gonna block the Norwegian Trench?
You could do this with the mediterranean (Atlantropa), where more water evaporates than comes in from the rivers, but given the huge number of rivers into the north sea and the lower evaporation due to lower temperature, I tend to think that building this dam would even increase the water level in the north sea…
To be precise, this was invisioned by some Dutch scientists (I believ, correct me if I’m wrong!).
This was to raise the awareness of climate change and sea level rise in North-western Europe which is especially vulnerable to it.
I am missing the Transatlantic bridge post
This is a short term solution at best.
I propose relocating Europe to the one place untouched by anthropogenic climate change:
SPACE!
We will be underwater before they even agree what material to use
It is just for protection and not poldering the entire North and Baltic sea, right Netherlands?
Netherlands: “… no comment”
Are we on megastructure day?
Surely nothing can go wrong by enclosing Europe’s most busiest ports…
what absolutely deranged individual came up with this asinine idea, the forces battering there dams would be astronomical, it also cuts of most of western Europe from the gulf stream which will have severe consequences on the European climate. Not to mention the sheer population that would be in danger if one of these dams were to break, you’d be better off with a series of local seawalls and other adaptation to the sea levels.
Ireland fucked
Can’t we just drill a drain hole in the bottom of the ocean?
Doggerland returns?
Worth adding that this is a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the extreme cost of engineering solutions for climate change. The authors understand this as “more of a warning than a solution”.
Holy fuck. We destroyed so much of the ecosystem we NEED to destroy the rest to save ourselves?!
Might as well call it the Netherlands enclosure Dam since we are the ones it’s being build for the most and are the ones who will most likely gonna have to build it.
Has to be done, the land is needed for Amazon warehouses and Lidl’s
The only thing saving me in Scotland is the fact we’re just one big hill mostly
Doggerland here we come
Make Doggerland surface again!
Imagine a having a highway over the dam linking Norway to Scotland… Crazy.
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Source: [The Northern European Enclosure Dam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_European_Enclosure_Dam)
Lemme guess, the Dutch are gonna build it
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
I’m Dutch and say LET’S GOOO
How about we just stop melting the icecaps? Much easier solution.
What about sea traffic though?
What about Ireland, Iceland and west coast of UK? Will they sink or am I missing something? I don’t want anyone to sink 🙁
We could build so many new polders if this plan succeeds! Death to the ocean!!
What are the red dots for? They’re not capital cities, there’s a seemingly random one in the Midlands of England, both Edinburgh and Glasgow are dotted…
Wouldn’t this destroy fisheries?
What about the fish? Won’t someone please thinking the fish.
And submarines, won’t someone please be thinking the poor submarines.
Fixing the climate might be cheaper…
This will not only affect coastal cities in a positive (perhaps also negative) way. It will effectively mitigate any Russian threat from the Baltic sea. As EU and it’s allies can effectively control the entire north sea and ever single vessel that ships through it.
It would be a massive geopolitical change. Russia ain’t going to like this one.
Britain would no longer be an island nation and entirely open to invasion by the Dutch.
Fennoscandia has a pretty significant post-glacial rebound. Finland, for example, is growing about seven square kilometers per year. So, we NO NEED.
Maybe someone tell conservatives this wouldn’t be needed if they had invested in becoming energy neutral instead of fossil fuels.
Instead here we are looking at a multi trillion dollar investment to mitigate effects of climate change.
This might actually be necessary in the future, because Denmark will be fucked if sea level rises even moderately.
Never going to happen , depends on collaboration with the UK.
How are they gonna block the Norwegian Trench?
You could do this with the mediterranean (Atlantropa), where more water evaporates than comes in from the rivers, but given the huge number of rivers into the north sea and the lower evaporation due to lower temperature, I tend to think that building this dam would even increase the water level in the north sea…
To be precise, this was invisioned by some Dutch scientists (I believ, correct me if I’m wrong!).
This was to raise the awareness of climate change and sea level rise in North-western Europe which is especially vulnerable to it.
I am missing the Transatlantic bridge post
This is a short term solution at best.
I propose relocating Europe to the one place untouched by anthropogenic climate change:
SPACE!
We will be underwater before they even agree what material to use
It is just for protection and not poldering the entire North and Baltic sea, right Netherlands?
Netherlands: “… no comment”
Are we on megastructure day?
Surely nothing can go wrong by enclosing Europe’s most busiest ports…
what absolutely deranged individual came up with this asinine idea, the forces battering there dams would be astronomical, it also cuts of most of western Europe from the gulf stream which will have severe consequences on the European climate. Not to mention the sheer population that would be in danger if one of these dams were to break, you’d be better off with a series of local seawalls and other adaptation to the sea levels.
Ireland fucked
Can’t we just drill a drain hole in the bottom of the ocean?
Doggerland returns?
Worth adding that this is a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the extreme cost of engineering solutions for climate change. The authors understand this as “more of a warning than a solution”.
Holy fuck. We destroyed so much of the ecosystem we NEED to destroy the rest to save ourselves?!
Might as well call it the Netherlands enclosure Dam since we are the ones it’s being build for the most and are the ones who will most likely gonna have to build it.
Has to be done, the land is needed for Amazon warehouses and Lidl’s
The only thing saving me in Scotland is the fact we’re just one big hill mostly
Doggerland here we come
Make Doggerland surface again!
Imagine a having a highway over the dam linking Norway to Scotland… Crazy.