Above or Below Sea-level?

Scott, over at the Adventures – The Next Chapter blog, draws my attention to the Inhabitat  web site, which I hadn’t seen before. It looks interesting, although I have reservations about the preponderance of items that seem to gush on and on about some artsy-fartsy precious piece of design faddery. However, that is balanced by items such as the one that caught Scott’s attention – a piece on whether we are reaching the "tipping point" of Global Warming.

 

As Scott says, living below sea level does rather concentrate the mind. In our search for a new house, I’ve taken to checking the Geo-Loket Hoogtemeter (the link is on this page). It’s a handy-dandy tool for folks living in The Netherlands – just enter in your postcode, and you are told how high above sea level (or below for half of the country) you are. In the Netherlands, sea level is known as NAP (Normaal Amsterdamse Peil). I note that the house we are currently interested in sits at 19.3 metres above NAP. I know it’s not much, but every little counts, in my opinion…