Hmmm, I think there is a confusion of terms here.

As I understand, sinking means that the land is sinking due to the movements of intercontinational plates (or whatever they are called in english), the gaining of oil or gas or whatever. IOW, moving downwards.

I think what is meant here that with the rise of the sea because of the climat change the netherlands has to fight the rising water more and more. So the land is not sinking, but the sea is rising.

Walter,




>That's interesting. I watched a Frontline special on PBS about the Netherlands sinking a few months ago... I did a quick search but only came up with this (without looking further):
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>http://www.deltawerken.com/After-the-Deltaworks/333.html
>http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,377050,00.html
>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2914_venice.html
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>>>http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/06/23/Many_Dutch_prepare_for_2012_apocalypse/UPI-40461214263554/
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>>I don't read the volkskrant and I've not heard this at all. As for the netherlands sinking, that is news to me as well, there are certain areas that are sinking because of using the natural gas reserve, but that is all I know off.
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>>As in any country, we've got our share of nutcases who will believe this kind of nonsense.