I once postulated to a liberal, while living in CA, that we simply need to build huge pumps and lots of pipe along CA. We could pump sea water directly into death Valley Arizona and turn that basin into a salt water lake. Then the whole area habitat would change and spur life while simultaneously lowering sea levels. The evaporation of the huge lake would affect the surrounding dessert and could create farm land just the same way they did for the central CA dessert. Before they stopped irrigating the central CA desert region, they had lush farm land. It works. If it weren't for those pesky smelt, we could still have a vibrant vast farming area in the middle of CA. Think of Death Valley in 100 years as a new forest with millions of lush green vegetation absorbing CO2 and providing rich oxygen. He argued that you couldn't build a system that big and it wouldn't affect the sea level. Uhm, hello? Alaskan pipe line? Duh! But it wouldn't lower the sea level because all water makes it's way back to the sea. I really began to screw with him when I suggested "It's really just a timing issue. What we need to do is control the rate at which water actually goes back into the ocean. We should build more damns. Think what would happen if we could divert the Mississippi river. AND remember that Panama Canal Project? That must have lowered sea level. We could just dig big holes in the ocean and pile the spoils on land. That would help too." He continued to insist that none of this would work because it's just too insignificant. I then proved it with the 5 gallon bucket argument. Finally I asked him to define "insignificant".
FINALLY - Let's talk about the amount of CO2 that is in the atmosphere as a % and what % of that is from human use of energy (insignificant).
Now that's fun when their heads explode. Because THAT calculation is NOT insignificant and I "just don't understand science." LOL!
If it weren't for those pesky smelt, we could still have a vibrant vast farming area in the middle of CA.See, I never did get that. Smelt are fish. If they die and just float in the shallows in the sun a while and you go check them, what are you going to tell me about them? That they smelt. Well, they smelt before, they smelt after. What's the big deal?