Giant dams enclosing North Sea could protect millions from rising waters
by Jon Henley and Alan Evans from Environment | The Guardian on (#4Z8RN)
Dams between Scotland, Norway, France and England 'a possible solution' to problem
A Dutch government scientist has proposed building two mammoth dams to completely enclose the North Sea and protect an estimated 25 million Europeans from the consequences of rising sea levels as a result of global heating.
Sjoerd Groeskamp, an oceanographer at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, said a 475km dam between north Scotland and west Norway and another 160km one between west France and south-west England was "a possible solution".
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