Historically, Holland fought the effects of Global Warming there with sea walls, etc. What are they doing now?

My friend was in Holland (The Netherlands) about ten years ago, and said they were already actively working against the effects of Global Climate Change/Global Warming back then. They were building their sea walls and dikes up much higher, and also finding area for water flow in rivers and flood plains to exist safely.



But now it is ten years later, and we know things have gotten worse, faster, and I am wondering what they are doing about it now.



What are they working on? Technology? Changing housing patterns? Are there people who are emigrating away from that country? What is the latest?
Historically, Holland fought the effects of Global Warming there with sea walls, etc. What are they doing now?
Here's a recent article with some information. Holland is the 4th country.



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/scienc鈥?/a>



A little more here:



http://www.canary-project.org/photos_net鈥?/a>



EDIT:



http://www.government.nl/actueel/nieuwsa鈥?/a>



http://www.government.nl/actueel/nieuwsa鈥?/a>



http://www.government.nl/actueel/nieuwsa鈥?/a>



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200鈥?/a>



http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_rea鈥?/a>



Does this count?



http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/Glob鈥?/a>
Historically, Holland fought the effects of Global Warming there with sea walls, etc. What are they doing now?
Nothing I want to know about. ( Been there. )
I am Dutch and asked this very same question a few weeks ago ,but i did not get any good answers



http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>
The only thing walls and dikes help with are longshore current errosion, which is not an effect of global warming, but what happens to ocean shores. They are probably currently/ regularly rebuilding and fixing these walls because they are being erroded by waves and water movement! The Netherlands is probably cleaner than some countries because more people ride their bikes there (so I've heard).
There are areas of holland that were always below sea level, global warming wasn't the reason for dykes
the netherlands r expected 2 go underwater w/in 50 years
Well the EU is concidered a world leader in dealing with Greenhouse Gas emissions so I think they are doing quite a bit in terms of sea level rise by using environmental policies like Greenhouse Gas caps, emissions trading etc.. They are currently working on the most important issue Transportation.. Cars are the most prevalent source of human GHG emissions..
What kind of revisionist liberal stuff have you been reading?



Holland built the sea walls because they DRAINED a sea bed to make more usable land. They were building the dikes and using windmills to pump out the water for hundreds of years before anyone came up with the term %26quot;Global Warming.%26quot;



Your question is based on a premise that has no foundation in reality.

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