Flooding the Sahara is a sustainable geoengineering compared to some others; it could be implemented along some GeoMIP scenarios. I mentioned it during a workshop in Colorado last July : could some GeoMIP Simulations take into account this aspect?
Dr Koné Salif, Malian National School of Engineers (ENI-ABT) Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Sep 2015, at 20:22, Brian Cady <[email protected]> wrote: > > Diking and flooding tropical deserts, primarily the Sahara, might: > - Isolate some seawater. > - Allow more sealife/mariculture, and thus, perhaps > - fix more carbon from air via life. > > Brian > >> On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 4:03:16 AM UTC-4, Parminder Singh wrote: >> Recent measurements by NASA using satellites indicate around 8cm rises and >> predict to increase to around a metre at the end of the century if >> temperatures remain unchecked. Worst to come with complete ice melts from >> the Antarctica/Greenland. >> >> One paper mentioned the Sahara. >> >> (Schuiling, R.D. in Geochemical Engineering: current applications (1998) The >> greenhouse effect; cures from geochemical engineering and future trends. >> Eds. S.P.Vriend and J.P.Zijlstra. J.Geochem.Expl. A9-A13). >> >> Parminder Singh >> Independent Civil Engineer >> Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
