" I haven't checked, could filling these depressions give a significant reprieve from rising seas?"
No. Less than a centimeter of sea level rise would fill them all to the brim, including elevated basins like Turfan. On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 1:21:27 PM UTC-4, Ernie Rogers wrote: > > The story about melting of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf is terrifying. > Surely this is the kind of challenge we mean by the term "geoengineering." > It seems there may be too solutions: hold the water (ice) right > where it is, or--find someplace to put it. I would like to talk about the > second route. There are rather large areas of the earth that are very dry > and below sea level. > https://geology.com/below-sea-level/ > Why not put the water there? The Caspian depression is about 90 feet deep > and covers about 200,000 square miles. The Dead Sea depression is very > deep and fairly large. I haven't checked, could filling these depressions > give a significant reprieve from rising seas? > I believe there are economic benefits of a sea level canal to the > Caspian that could make it a profitable venture. I think China would be > willing to pay for it--it could give them a shorter shipping route to > Europe. I'm not an expert--what do you think? Is someone working on this? > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/489b0926-144d-4de9-8346-a3c021ae1ac9%40googlegroups.com.
