If the water comes

Concern that climate change could cause the sea level to rise by 1.3 metres this century has prompted the so-called Delta Commission in the Netherlands to present a plan to protect the country from flooding. The news magazine Elsevier comments: "The Netherlands needs to heighten its dikes and dunes anyway - regardless of how the climate will change. Therefore it makes sense for the Commission ... to put this topic at the top of the political agenda. It is also good that the Commission ... has proposed putting aside part of the proceeds from natural gas exploitation for this purpose. ... But although the measures proposed by the Delta Commission deserve support, its analysis of the rise in the sea level is simply absurd. ... In the past ten years the average temperature worldwide has gone down slightly, and experts are predicting that the global cooling will last at least another ten years."

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