Half an Ark in Europe

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Interesting. A Dutchman named Johan Huibers has made a half-scale version of Noah's ark, nearly three storeys high. Part of his inspiration seems to be that his Dutch lowlands might soon be flooded by global warming. Might be a nice consolation if climate change hysteria made people get religion, but reason tells me that if you believe man is solely responsible for changing the planet's climate, you're not thinking much about God in the first place.

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