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Sea level blunder enrages Dutch minister
Radio
Netherlands
Friday, February 5th, 2010
A United Nations report wrongly claimed that more than half
of the Netherlands is currently below sea level.
In fact, just 20 percent of the country consists of polders
that are pumped dry, and which are at risk of flooding if global
warming causes rising sea levels. Dutch Environment Minister
Jacqueline Cramer has ordered a thorough investigation into
the quality of the climate reports which she uses to base her
policies on.
Climate-sceptic MPs were quick to react. Conservative MP Helma
Neppérus and Richard de Mos from the right-wing Freedom
Party want the minister to explain to parliament how these figures
were used to decide on national climate policy. "This may
invalidate all claims that the last decades were the hottest
ever," Mr De Mos said.
The incorrect figures which date back to 2007 were revealed
on Wednesday by the weekly Vrij Nederland. The Dutch Environmental
Assessment Agency told reporters that the UN's Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) added together two figures supplied
by the agency: the area of the Netherlands which is below sea-level
and the area which is susceptible to flooding. In fact, these
areas overlap, so the figures should not have been combined
to produce the 55 percent quoted by the IPCC.
The discovery comes just a week after a prediction about glaciers
in the Himalayas proved wrong. Rather than disappearing by 2035,
as IPCC reports claim, the original research underlying the
report predicted the mountain ice would last until 2350.
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