This is not one of those ho-hum posts about the weather. Personally if someone begins a blog post talking about the weather, I'd almost immediately click away. But the title of this post is about climate change, and living in the Netherlands, it is a life and death concern.

You may have heard that half of this country lies below sea level, made possible by a wonderfully complex and photogenic system of dykes and dams. Come here and you may hear that stat over and over, sometimes as a sort of, point-of-pride. Other times it seems more of a warning, just stick an exclamation point on it: half of the country lies below sea level!

So the more evidence that is compiled, about the rising of the sea level on earth, the more an alarm sets off in my little brain. Which is pretty much what always after I read items like what was on Drudge today, under the headline:

2006 warmest year in Netherlands in 300 years

And indeed. I've noticed. It is fairly warm out there for December. Not really ice skating weather, even if they have slapped the ring out on Leidseplein.

So.. if you're not here yet.. start planning the visit, because time is quite literally ticking away and you're running out of chances to see the future country eaten by the ocean.