and just how high would THAT raise the ocean level??? the greenies would never stand for it...
and just how high would THAT raise the ocean level??? the greenies would never stand for it...
Taking 200 meters off the Med via evaporation would put that into the atmosphere over time as clouds and eventually rain out over both land and oceans. The water that falls over land that is previously dry would soak into the vadose zone and ve stored as ground water until saturation is reached then Hortonian overland flows would begin starting a runoff cycle. Some of that run off would be trapped in recharge zones of aquifers and others would run off into either back into the Med basin or redsea or north sea or Atlantic ocean. Over all it would eventually raise the worlds oceans a small amount all the mass of water not stored in biomass or ground water or ice in glaciters in the Alps. Given the relative size of the Med vs the world ocean for which there truly is only one. The effect would be a few centimeters at most. Yes as a matter of fact I am a hydrogeologist :)
The greens are the least of the worry. The level of international cooperation needed for a project of this scale dooms it because of the political infighting between the various special interest groups of which the greens are but one. Only a top down leader such as Das Führer who could silence the loud mouth groups and just put resources over a continental scale to work on a single front would be able to accomplish something like this. Look at China they can do Great Wall , Three gorges sized projects due to one party rule. Hell ask the Chinese to do the labor and raw materials with Dutch engineering thats the way to get something like this done while ignoring little counties like Gibraltar and Egypt use mass military might to just do it. But that’s the pure blood Italian fascist in me.