Copenhagen Needs More Dikes to Ward Off Higher Seas.By Christian Wienberg, BloombergNews, October 8, 2008. "Copenhagen, built largely on land less than a meter (39 inches) above sea level, is ground zero in Scandinavia for global-warming research. The Danish capital, founded in the 12th century, is now the Nordic region's largest city, with a population of 1.2 million. Those are reasons municipal officials should build more dikes and other protection against higher sea levels that may result from global warming, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a report [PDF, 51 pp] today. 'There's no need to panic, but it's necessary to prepare already now for rising sea levels to limit economic loses,' Danish Climate and Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard said on the agency's website in a response to the findings."
2008-10-10
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