Climate alarmists have tried some wild tactics to try and mitigate what they claim is the threat of climate catastrophe.
Believe me, we know.
But flooding a desert might be the most, um, ambitious proposal yet.
ZME Science reports:
Sea levels are rising, threatening coastal areas, including cities, around the world. Due to climate change, the global ocean has already risen by 21-24 centimeters (about 8-9.5 inches) since 1880, and the rate is accelerating, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A new climate idea aims to slow this rise by moving seawater to reflood inland depressions.
That's right: These guys basically want to take this viral beach video:
...and level it up by several orders of magnitude.
Here are a few of the low-lying depressions and existing lakes/inland seas that the scientists would want to flood. 👇
Okay, okay, maybe I can get behind "MEGA CHAD":
The process functions via "reconnection of large, below-sea-level basins to the ocean to create stable inland seas." The "initial flooding of the depression in Egypt ... could lower global sea levels by a few millimeters."
Here's what the flooding of the Qattara depression would look like:
In practical terms, reflooding would use a sea-level intake on the Mediterranean connected by a canal or tunnel system to Qattara's interior. Flow would be regulated for stability, energy opportunities during the initial fill, and environmental safeguards. Based on the depression's footprint and depth profile, a first-order estimate is that fully filling Qattara to a designed operating level could remove on the order of a few hundred to roughly 1,000 cubic kilometers [240 cubic miles] of seawater from the global ocean. Spread over the area of the world's oceans, that corresponds to a global mean sea level reduction of a few millimeters.
I guess climate alarmists have to take what they can get! Indeed, they've been stressing out over a rise of "a few millimeters" for decades now, so I guess if they can drain them by dumping ocean water into a desert, they'll do it.
Some of the many barriers to the project, however, include ensuring "adequate governance; compensation and justice for the sparse populations that currently live in the desert; environmental studies; and agreement within Egypt and the international community."
As the lead researcher puts it:
Whether we should do it depends on careful case-by-case analysis, social license and strong governance.
Condolences to any folks living in the deserts when the flooding starts!
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