Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper I: Geography
Why in news?
- Scientists have proposed the construction of a Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED) enclosing all of the North Sea as an extraordinary measure to protect Northern European countries from rising seas as a result of climate change.
About:
- The Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED) is a proposed solution to the problem of rising ocean levels in Northern Europe.
- It would be a megaproject, involving the construction of two massive dams of a combined length of 637 km enclosing all of the North Sea: one between France and England, and another between Scotland and Norway.
- The concept was conceived by the oceanographers Sjoerd Groeskamp and Joakim Kjellsson.
- According to them, separating the North and Baltic Seas from the Atlantic Ocean may be the “most viable option” to protect Northern Europe against unstoppable sea level rise (SLR).
- The scheme’s authors describe it as “more of a warning than a solution”. As of 2020, the scheme is largely a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the extreme cost of engineered solutions to the effects of climate change.
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