dikes

Just build dikes like the Dutch, and the problem is solved.

The problem is of course that your solution requires the rich nations building those dikes and levees for all the third world nations of the world.

It means that all sea dikes in my country need to be increased 7 meters in height (and a lot more than that in width and mass).

Either you believe technological progress will make building dikes/etc easier in 200-300 years, or you don't.

But maybe all those bike roads and dikes point to another aspect of the culture -- a little too well-supervised and well-engineered.

Then you enter an arms race by building levys/dams/dikes and we're still just treating the symptoms.

As to the building of 75m high dikes: problem would be how one would get rid of the water of the Rhine and Meuse.

Also US recent experience dikes and air defenses are important too.

Oh, and a couple of thin dikes you could land on.

Nobody knows if it's even possible, so we might end up wasting all that money and then still having to build dikes.

As long as someone knows to take a peak under the seat, they can just make one pass with a pair of dikes and steal the Cricket.

And we probably can afford the extreme expenditure necessary to increase those dikes.

Dutch water defense planning has already considered rising sea levels and increased the "Delta height" for dikes.

The "extreme expenditure" to build dikes is a lot less than the expenditure to not just stop, but revert global warming.

Runner-up in the uninhabitable sweepstakes is New Orleans, which is mostly below sea level and only "dry land" because of unreliable dikes that periodically fail.

" The new material, the researchers say, could revolutionize the assembly of airplanes, spacecraft, and even larger structures, such as dikes and levees." I hate sentences like that when journalists are talking about a scientific paper.

Just pay up for the 'Dikes for Bangladesh' fund first.

Dikes are far less troubling that geo-engineering.

Dikes won't stop water seeping up through the porous limestone which Miami is built on, nor are they practical for protecting the everglades or any of the existing fresh water and sewerage systems I think the bigger problem is that the resources for dealing with this sort of catastrophe will be stretched very thin when every coastal city the world over is trying to deal with rising water levels.