Re: New Zealnders now laughing at global warming

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
In article <d1b92$4653dc7a$cef8887a$14946@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Consider a city like New Orleans. Raise ocean level by half a metre and the next hurricane to hit will definitely push a surge of water that will go over the levies every year.


And yet, after loosing everything and really having nothing to go back
there for people are flocking back and being strongly encouraged to do
so by the local government knowing full well that they are very likely
to get wiped out yet again. Go figure!! People here do realize that
the US is so big there is plenty of land available to relocate all those
people permanently at a tremendous saving over the cost of continuously
rebuilding New Orleans.

And someone in an earlier post mentioned how much time JFK would spend
underwater if the oceans rose even a little bit. Can you say Schipol?

Actually it is Schiphol, and it means Ship's Hell. The old Schiphol airport (now Schiphol East) was build on the bottom of a former big lake, the Haarlemmermeer. Storms from the West (the most common direction) drove ships to that part of the lake, and many ships sank there. Hence the name Ship's Hell for that part of the lake. In the mid 19th a big storm almost caused the lake to flood Amsterdam. So it was decided to pump the lake dry, and since it was to big to pump it dry with just windmills, they used steam driven pumps for the first time. One of the pumps is called Qruquius, it has the biggest steamengine ever build (in pure size that is), and it is now a museum.

I knew you could!!

bill

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