Posted on 03/15/2021 1:30:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
They would have tectonics on their side, since the African plate is pushing northward toward Europe. But they would isolate the Black Sea and create a huge great salt lake there. Doubt the people would be happy about that.
Good catch. more sh*t “journalism.”
i remember that
iirc something about the decrease in fresh water into the arctic was thought to improve transit due to decrease in ice too
“I remember that.”
LOL. And the river beds in the Sahara. Rocks formed at the North Pole now sittings on the equator. Land bridges from Europe to Britain, Asia to Japan, Asia to North America.
This planet’s climate has been all over the place before human’s were even here!
I want them to explain this first before I’ll believe the need for the New Green Deal.
Think of all the submarines they would find from ww1 and ww2.
How many submarines were going into the Mediterranean? It seems like submarine warfare was mostly in the Atlantic?
Did a quick search. For WW2: 62 U-boats lost
Cost? Will DiFi’s hubby’s firm get a cut of the action?
Teddy Roosevelt would give the project a big bad two BUllys!!!
The volume of water frozen in Antarctica is much larger than the top 200 meters of the Med. Antarctica has kilometers thick ice sheets that when melted would flow.directly into the ocean at Antarctic.temps.evaporation is.drastically.reduced that’s why it’s a.giant desert one of the dfirst places on earth. Maybe for giggles today I’ll do a hypothetical mass balance with the Med and the local area River basins. The math for Antarctic ice sheet melting has been done it’s over 100 meters of sea level rise it.depends on how fast the melting happens due to crust isostatic rebound rates taking up accommodation space for the waters on the continental shelf. The mental math version is easier to picture. The total world ocean area is just under 140 million square miles. The Meds area is 965,000 ish sqmi so the Med is 0.00689 the surface area of the rest of the world’s oceans. Taking the top 200 meters off that small of an area and spreading it over the rest would be just about 1.2 meters but like I said a good.portion would end up in the adjacent ground water stores given the dry conditions and the depths of unsaturated vadose zones. Half or more would end up trapped that way, another ten percent or so in biomass so like my original estimates a few tens of cm of rise world wide.
Heck yes the old-school 1960s peaceful atomic...huge fan! Cutting a canal at sea level through Nicaragua with nukes, a larger suez yup nukes. Flooding the Afar triangle depression making a huge salt sea bringing evaporation next door to the head waters of the Nile oh yea baby nuke that badboy. Dig deep water harbors all along any types of coastlines in seconds blammo nuke it good. Need to frac oil fields in tight rocks kaplow nuke it. Gas shales boom that stuff too. Need underground caverns to store liquids or gasses pow goes the miracle Abomb the last three things were actually done. We as in the USA nuked tight oil rocks and drilled into it , same for gas shales and there was a few cavern test shots.
this is why i love FR... i learn something everyday
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