Rising see levels, myth?
I think the flash floods and milder winters and summers are just relocating the normal seasons that each land mass is used to and whilst we are warming up other areas have cooled down, like (south asia) and this is all just a cycle within a cycle, and across another cycle that works around the cycle of our earth and its cycle within the universe.
Now if see levels have risen by approx. 10-20 cm in the last 100 years, and we have been able to connect 2 land masses by a tunnel under the sea, then why are we not able to dig up the sea bed, im talking hundreds of square miles of sea bed, to accomodate the extra water we have, and used displaced land to build up the low land areas that flood
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Just a memo you might have missed; the IPCC no longer embraces the concept of catastrophic sea level rise.
Their latest report says 8 inches in the next 100 years - no more than 2 feet.
And if there truly is global warming, then the atmosphere will have increased capacity for holding water vapor. Sea level rise may be less than estimated.
Well... I heard that scientists are trying to find a way to stop cows from farting because that is what is causing the global warming!!
Sea levels are rising, this is not a opinion, it has been measured and carefully documented. Dredging up enough of the sea floor to lower the ocean levels is not and economical solution.
Yes, but what you haven't taken into consideration is that the icecaps are melting. And the ice which has been there for thousands of years is now melting, hence more water. The displacement of the ice is not equal to the volume of water which is affecting the countries which are flooding.
However you cannot go digging up the sea bed and plonk it somewhere to stop the water from flooding the land. It is a bit like when you're a kid and building a wall out of sand on the beach thinking that it will hold the tide back. Erosion will always be inevitable because of the tides.
the first time i transferred to my place, dig 15 feet deep before 1 could get water. Now, 1 need to put landfills on top of the former ground level by 2 feet so we won't be wading in the water.
No the sea levels are rising and the polar ice caps are shrinking
do you have any Idea fo how expensive dredging that amount of land would be? and where would you put the stuff you dug out it cannot be dumped at sea like normal dredging you would have to bring it ashore more expense.
Where are you going to put hundreds of square miles of salty mud and rock?
the sea levels ARE rising. i artic is melting making to sea level rise
Then again maybe not - eh! I am going to take a stab in the dark here and assume that you are a young person, a bright young person who sees an obvious solution, and cannot understand why somebody has not thought of it before. My assumption could be wrong though, and you might be a thick old person, but I will take the chance and direct my answer to the former!
People who live in denial will just not see, maybe because they fear their own positions or they are paid to distort the truth.
I can understand professional pundits who are in the pockets of the oil conglomerates and other capitalist organisations shouting down the idea of global warming because it is in their interests to do so, in effect, selling their souls, and worse their childrens souls, for short term profit but surely it is common sense that if these things that are being predicted can happen, even if there is a 10 or 20 percent chance of them happening, it is insane to take the chance.
What gives the capitalists the right to play dice with our lives and worse, our childrens lives if the prospects of catastrophe are as high as they say they are. The fact is that it is just not possible to put the genie back into the bottle if they are wrong!
Your ideas, commendable as they are, can only be attained at the cost of probably thousands of billions of dollars/pounds and a whole host of international agreements in a time when people cannot even agree over who makes the tea. In an ideal world these things would be possible but in an ideal world we would not even be experiencing the problems in the first place. Finally, it would be impractical for us all to relocate to a place where the weather patterns were to our liking, in the long run everything would be easier if we all took the easy route of just cutting back on our energy abuse.
I spent some time in a village by the sea. On some photos, in the town hall, you can see long beaches of sand and some bunkers from WWII. Today, the village is protected from the sea thanks to civil engineering...
So a myth? I guess you don't live in Holland or in Venice...
So basically if I can get through all those inaccuracies and spelling mistakes you are saying to dig a big hole in the ocean to put all the extra water in to counter rising sea levels. I wonder how much energy (fossil fuels) and time that would take?
Ok so let’s think about this for a second. It’s been man’s action that has caused two major environmental emergencies on this planet so far, the hole in the ozone layer and now global warming. Perhaps man’s best chance at surviving is not to correct the environment to accommodate man, but to give control back to nature and nature let nature put the environment back the way nature intended. Man simply doesn’t know enough about the environment to fix alter it using a man made plan, other than to stop doing the damage in the first place. There have been all kinds of man-made solutions, such as giant mirrors in space to reflect a certain portion of sunlight. The fact is we are simply not that good at fixing nature because when man decides to fix one problem in nature we usually find ten others that crop up. Ask the Australians about how they feel about cane toads. Nature built the earth’s environment, so allow nature to run it without man messing it up. To do this we must stop the wholesale exploitation of the planet's systems.
Sea levels have always changed up or down with the climate. The Ice Age locked so much water up atop the continents that sea levels were much lower. The warming at the end of the last Ice Age raised sea levels higher than at present. Man did not cause that warming any more than Man is causing the present warming. Do what was done in the past, move to higher ground.
If you can't spell sea how can you possibly have views worth listening toooooo.
adnan k - I agree we should look at all options carefully and stop imagining switching of a few light bulbs is going to make a difference
And as for all these megastars - they have their lights burning in all their luxury houses 24/7 and they have CCTV etc - them telling us 'civilians' what to do is a complete joke and shows how far up themselves some people are. Maybe if we got rid of all of them we could save more energy. Think of all the trees that would save as there would be no more trashy magazines to read for a start.
Besides having to reconstruct most everything, you would have to pay about $35,000 an acre for the work (I know - I'm a civil engineer). For anytownbythesea, this amounts to $22.4 million a square mile.
I'd argue that it's cheaper, or at least easier, to reduce CO2 output than to have to do this.
perhaps you would like to read the link below. I definately dont think its a myth, theres just too much evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sea_level_r...
Rising sea levels not a myth, ever than before, in the past century; there has been a dramatic rise in sea level apparently due to the melting of polar ice caps as a result of global warming. some environmentalists view the water cycle as a closed cycle an as such water is being recycled indefinitely. but since the creation of the earth these regions have seen only a little heat due to sufficient cover from the ozone layer.however, with the constant depletion of the ozone layer from rapid industrial revolution that has witnessed the emission of CFC's and other ozone layer depleting substances, these areas become more exposed to radiant heat from the sun and has led to a rise in sea level of approx 2 inches/100yrs.
Are sea levels rising? Apparantly Scotland is rising and the south east is sinking. Many moons ago India moved north and crashed into tibet, pushing tibet up (as in skywards rather than north) and now the big lava route which was holding Tibet up has gone and Tibet is going back down again. I'm not making a great deal of sense but it is all explained on 'Earth story' a documentary series presented by Aubrey Manning, it's not about global warming it's about the earth, what it does, how it works and the cycles it goes thru, altho quite long it is very interesting.
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