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Another brainwave on Protection from water and the effects of global warming.

Floods occur. Even in Copenhagen. In 1760, the water level in the Southernmost part of the harbour (Avedøre Holme) was 3,7 meters above normal, and in 1825 stories go, that it was possible to travel through streets nearby the Copenhagen Harbour by ship.

The meteorological precondition for flooding is an extreme low pressure, which generates a cyclone. These cyclones nearly always move counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, but sometimes they move clockwise, and Huston… we have a lot of water being blown into the western part of the Baltic sea - and Denmark just lying there as a big barrier to the water. It rarely happens. Bit it did happen, and it did happen before anyone had heard of global warming, I’m just saying…

This is a view from a place in the Southern part of the harbour, which will certainly not withstand a water level 3,7 meters above normal. I love it. I often walk there. Listening to water splashing against stones, and making visual contact with the horizon soothes the soul. I can’t help noticing, however, the irony of the view: A bridge for cars, and a power plant busily emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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