Subject: Re: Dutch provincial North sea<br/>
Date: Dec 17, 2001 @ 19:20<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-337012825">Peter:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;&gt; &quot;king perigean eclipse tide&quot;. Mark your diary for the next one - 18<br/>
&gt;&gt; January 3089.<br/>
&gt; With global warming and/or all sorts of possible changes in the <br/>
&gt; climate and all that, it possibly won&#39;t account for much, though.<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Even if sea level has risen, it&#39;ll still fall just as dramatically on<br/>
that day - 30 or 40% lower than the usual spring tide levels.<br/>
I can imagine the occasional church spire poking into view for the<br/>
first time in 500 years - like Escher&#39;s Cathédrale Engloutie in reverse.<br/>
(Ironic, really, given that Escher was Dutch - the Netherlands is so<br/>
much better prepared for sea-level change than anywhere else, yours is<br/>
perhaps the only coastal country that *won&#39;t* have a drowned cathedral!)<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>