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IPCC: “The Netherlands is an example of a country highly susceptible to both sea-level rise and river flooding because 55% of its territory is below sea level where 60% of its population lives and 65% of its Gross National Product (GNP) is produced.”

As far as the IPCC is concerned, giving them the benefit of a few years before 2007, they could have checked official government statistics from CBS (Central Bureau of Statistics, “Statistics Netherlands”), which in their Statistical Yearbook of the Netherlands 2004, page 451, gives the figure for proportion of land below sea level as 24%.

http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/3C60B3E9-09E0-491F-87F2-99B8E54936A1/0/20...

Of course, what else is wrong with the IPCC quote is that it takes the Netherlands as a classic example: “The Netherlands is an example of a country highly susceptible to both sea-level rise and river flooding…”

But this is what the Dutch government has to say in “Sustainability Monitor for the Netherlands 2009″

http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/A36109C6-85F5-4371-8625-9D504C7DF957/0/20...

“In its 2006 climate scenarios, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) predicts that sea levels along the Dutch coast may rise by 35 to 85 centimetres. This is larger than the global average rise foreseen by the IPCC. Current technology enables the Dutch to reinforce its shore protection systems at socially acceptable costs (MNP, 2007b), even if the rate of sea level rise increases to 1.5 metres per century as a result of the increasing melting rates of the large land ice caps.
…The Netherlands will probably be able to withstand climate change and rising sea levels for a number of centuries to come. The safety of the country appears to be guaranteed to 2100 with respect to rising sea levels and river drainage. Even in the worst-case sea level rise of 1.5 metres per century, flooding will be able to be prevented with existing technology (reinforcing and raising dykes, at a cost of a maximum of 0.15 percent of GDP).”

Highly susceptible, my foot! – the Netherlands can easily withstand sea level rise FOR CENTURIES at moderate cost and existing technology – i.e. it’s business as normal. Looks like Glaciergate all over again. What is in the IPCC report is a lie, and a cruel hoax.