How much longer will growth of Antarcic ice save our coastlands?

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I got back such an exceptional comment on all this that I asked permission to copy and paste his reply:

"Ice melts. And when it was deposited by the last ice age into areas where it was never meant to be, eventually those glaciers are going to melt and recede - emptying that water back into the oceans.

If there is only "X" amount of water withing the entire system (meaning no more or less water is produced on the earth, its recycled) - then ice turning back into a liquid form and entering the oceans --- who's to say that water wasn't supposed to be their in the first place?

IF THAT IS TRUE - then the climate patterns we're seeing change are in fact only reverting back to what is "normal" for a fully charged system with the water back in it s orginal positions.

Climate change is real, but I'll challenge that the real problem is - humans living on this earth now have become accustomed to the "modified" climate created by ice packs holding that water. Now that its being released through natural melting - the additional non salinated water in the oceans is causing an increase in water temperature, which in turn is causing more energy to enter the jetstream... pushing weather patterns into non typical areas.

So explain how a carbon tax is going to stop this? What people NEED to do is understand that these changes are happening as a result of natural melting of ice and that coastal properties are at risk of flooding because that water needs to go somewhere and ocean front views are being reclaimed by nature itself." (Peter Walsworth)

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"Sure, feel free to forward my comment. Sadly, it will fall on deaf ears because it doesn't fit in with the agenda set by globalists who see this issue as a money generating scheme.
For the record, I am a conservative who does support action to fight climate change - but in the context of cleaning the air we breath so that we all can live in a healthier space. From my words above, you can see I am not an alarmist, and become quite frustrated when both sides of the political spectrum try and bend the information to suite their political gains.

We need our scientists to tell us the truth and not that which governments are funding them to say." (Peter Walsworth)
 
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Can you do 2% about it? All we need is for everyone to do their share.

Otherwise, every country can say the same thing. France is 1%, Australia is 1%, Brazil is 1%, Turkey is 1%, South Africa is 1%, Poland is 1%, Italy is 1%, the UK is 1%, Mexico is 1%, South Korea is 2%, Canada is 2%, Germany is 2%, Saudi Arabia is 2%, Japan is 4%, Russia is 5%, India is 6%. None of them individually are responsible for much, and none of them individually can make much of a dent in the problem. CO2 emissions have risen 60% since 1990, so even if India stopped all carbon use, it wouldn't get us back even a tenth of the way back to that level.

Together those countries amount to 32%. If they don't do anything, why should the US (15%)? If that total 47% doesn't do anything, why should China (28%)?

That's been the status quo forever, which is why the Paris Accords are a very useful attempt at coordinated action where everyone does their share, and no one feels like they've been left to carry the whole load.

That's a very good point!
 
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Can you do 2% about it? All we need is for everyone to do their share.

Otherwise, every country can say the same thing. France is 1%, Australia is 1%, Brazil is 1%, Turkey is 1%, South Africa is 1%, Poland is 1%, Italy is 1%, the UK is 1%, Mexico is 1%, South Korea is 2%, Canada is 2%, Germany is 2%, Saudi Arabia is 2%, Japan is 4%, Russia is 5%, India is 6%. None of them individually are responsible for much, and none of them individually can make much of a dent in the problem. CO2 emissions have risen 60% since 1990, so even if India stopped all carbon use, it wouldn't get us back even a tenth of the way back to that level.

Together those countries amount to 32%. If they don't do anything, why should the US (15%)? If that total 47% doesn't do anything, why should China (28%)?

That's been the status quo forever, which is why the Paris Accords are a very useful attempt at coordinated action where everyone does their share, and no one feels like they've been left to carry the whole load.

We Canadians already do far, far, far, far, far more than two percent about it and with a bit of intellectual honesty out of Ottawa we could solve perhaps thirty to sixty percent of the problem with this one technology alone?

Ottawa is giving me the impression that they want more TAXES..... more power.... more control over the lives of Canadians........ but Ottawa DOES NOT seem to want to promote a major technological breakthrough such as the following:


Carbon Engineering Ltd.

http://carbonengineering.com/about-dac/

What is DAC?




DAC is a technology that processes atmospheric air, removes CO2 and purifies it. CE’s DAC technology does this in a closed loop where the only major inputs are water and energy, and the output is a stream of pure, compressed CO₂. This captured, compressed CO₂ then offers a range of opportunities to create products and environmental benefits, including CE’s main focus, production of clean-burning liquid fuels with ultra-low carbon intensity.





At CE, we have been developing our DAC technology since 2009 and capturing CO2 from our pilot plant in Squamish, B.C. since 2015.





Why is DAC important?




Direct Air Capture is a flexible technology that can be used to achieve industrial-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and can also enable production of clean-burning low carbon inensity fuels.
 
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That's a very good point!
It is such a good point that it should not have been required and Dennis's argument in the OP should never have been made. It is a tragically simplistic, selfish, impractical approach.
 
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It is such a good point that it should not have been required and Dennis's argument in the OP should never have been made. It is a tragically simplistic, selfish, impractical approach.


I plead guilty! The house that I am typing from in on a lake that is classified as tidal water and thus..... I look at this whole question differently than somebody living in Ottawa or Washington!

How much longer will growth of Antarcic ice save our coastlands?


But......... we Canadians are in a position where the real estate along the Bay of Fundy may be some of the most vulnerable land on earth so......... we are forced to put first things first and think like a physician and worry about the threat of rising ocean levels first, (metaphorically it seems to be the number one most life threatening condition that the patient, the planet, seems to be facing)?!

I am hoping that some very bright Christian high school or community college or university students living along the Bay of Fundy may just put a somewhat different angle on the climate change discussion and hopefully even lure Ms. Thunberg into their project?

Concept for a Christian documentary starring Ms. Greta Thunberg....

"If average ocean levels rose by eight to ten cms (3 or 4 inches) could high tide...

... rise by one meter in the Isthmus of Chignecto in Nova Scotia, Canada?

This question is logical because the geography of Canada's Bay of Fundy produces the world's highest tides. In my part of Nova Scotia in Guysborough County there is very little funnelling of tidal waters......... so high tide is only about one to one point five meters above low tide.

In the eastern area of the Bay of Fundy high tide levels are up by ten to fifteen meters."


Bay of Fundy Tides: The Highest Tides in the World!

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Every cubic meter of ocean water that is desalinated and added to the water table of Israel, California, Algeria, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Nevada, South Africa, India or any other nation with lots of desert is really good news for the owners of the real estate along the Bay of Fundy and of Anchorage Alaska that have the second most extreme tides in the world for very similar reasons.

High tide waters are funnelled by the Bay of Fundy into a more and more narrow area and on top of that......... the Bay of Fundy is over one hundred and seventy miles long so high tide water cannot fully drain back into the ocean before the next high tide waters pile on top of them.
 
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Regenerative agriculture can nullify Anthropogenic CO2
Guy in the video definitely has a good sense of humor:

"How cold does it get in North Dakota? You know how cats like to get on the warm hood of your car in the Winter? This is what happens in North Dakota"

cow on hood, north dakota.png
 
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That's a very good point!


True...... and I plead guilty to having self interest in how I look at this but it may be some consolation that I was even more politically incorrect back in 2008....... as you can see from post #2

My 2006, my 2008 and my 2004 campaign writings by DennisTate.


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September 15, 2008

Dear residents of Indian Harbour Lake, Sonora and Wine Harbour: I am campaigning for the office of Municipal Councilor for St. Mary's District 4.

There are three primary threats to the quality of life for all of us who live here. High unemployment will probably force most of our young people to move far away to find jobs. Because of government cut backs St. Mary's Educational Centre may be closed as early as 2011. In the near future record high tides may devastate our roads and homes that are only a few feet above sea level. We are being told that there is little that you and I can do about any of these problems but this is simply not true.

Satellite pictures show rapid melting of Arctic ice but only about ten percent is above water level. Ice occupies more space than liquid water so until now we have experienced rather little ocean level rise. Our situation will be entirely different if and when melting occurs in the massive ice pack on Greenland and Antarctica that sit on land.

I am in agreement with environmentalist and economist Bjorn Lomborg that a carbon shift policy will probably be ineffective over the short term in combating global temperature increases or in preventing a destructive rise in world ocean levels.

The Bank of Canada Must Finance our Country, Debt-Free Say Three Economists
 
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I plead guilty! The house that I am typing from in on a lake that is classified as tidal water and thus..... I look at this whole question differently...

So you're saying you're sort of 'on the edge' -- threatened by climate change.
The world community has come up with a general plan for mitigating the problem.
Your response is, "I don't like that plan."

Sorry to say, people who are not as threatened as you are will be even less motivated to do anything.
 
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So you're saying you're sort of 'on the edge' -- threatened by climate change.
The world community has come up with a general plan for mitigating the problem.
Your response is, "I don't like that plan."

Sorry to say, people who are not as threatened as you are will be even less motivated to do anything.

Actually....... I think that the plan that the World Community has came up with is intellectually dishonest...........and will not address the threat of rising ocean level rapidly enough!

"Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world's temperature for hundreds of years." (lomborg
.com/coolit/)

Richard Dawkins Ph. D. is an insightful writer and speaker who actually did a quite good job on the topic of alien life forms evolving or even being involved in the origin of life on earth ..... but...... he has avoided the elephant in the room of the far more likely event of Life originating and evolving in fundamental or nearly fundamental energy and thus.... this Intelligence being capable of inspiring a group of writers who seemed to have insight comparable with near death experiencers who report viewing something like "timelessless" during their brushes with death.

Isaiah 35
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
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6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.


Mr. Carl Cantrell's basic theories ...... or at least some variation on it could be easily sold to the political right but...... Mr. Al Gore seems to have been pressured to attempt to divide Americans...... .as opposed to trying to unite them somewhat.

Green Party Leader Ms. Elizabeth May did reply to my 2008 campaign writing and basically stated that "turning deserts green was one part of a full response to climate change." She got my vote..... because I knew that I knew that she had given me an important admission that I would use often in the not too distant future.

I live in Central - Nova and she campaigned in my riding in 2008.
Central Nova - Wikipedia
 
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I wonder can the Australians save us or at least delay the problem for a decade or two?

Australia: A long term solution

Israeli technology can certainly be useful in the next phase.

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Cape Coral, FL has a desalinization plant. El Paso, TX has a desalinization plant. This technology is not Israeli tech.

If sea level is rising two inches per decade, how long can the coast shores last?

Florida has suffered beach erosion from tropical storms for decades. They have been mining sand and dumping it on the beach in Miami and other stretches of coast. The Dutch built dikes to reclaim land from the sea centuries ago.
 
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I got back such an exceptional comment on all this that I asked permission to copy and paste his reply:
... when it was deposited by the last ice age into areas where it was never meant to be...
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What an odd thing to say... so who gets to decide where ice was and was not 'meant to be'?
 
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Greenies will be frustrated. They want to send the world back to the stone age!

Oh, the irony of someone advocating superstition claiming it's others that want to send the world back to the stone age.
 
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I think that we should forget about the silly Carbon Tax idea. We Canadians produce less than two percent of Global Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Emissions anyway

This is like saying that no single raindrop is responsible for a flood.
 
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What an odd thing to say... so who gets to decide where ice was and was not 'meant to be'?


Silly me.......... but that statement was not made by me but was made by the person who I was quoting who incidentally I might agree with seventy or eighty percent of what they wrote and got enthusiastic because I am used to disagreeing with significantly greater percentages of several paragraph statements.

As to Who would decide where the ice should be...... the implications of this discussion are rather obvious:


Where did Intelligence begin, in matter or fundamental energy?
 
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Cape Coral, FL has a desalinization plant. El Paso, TX has a desalinization plant. This technology is not Israeli tech.

If sea level is rising two inches per decade, how long can the coast shores last?

Florida has suffered beach erosion from tropical storms for decades. They have been mining sand and dumping it on the beach in Miami and other stretches of coast. The Dutch built dikes to reclaim land from the sea centuries ago.

My goal is to desalinate and add to the water table of nations with lots of desert a comparable amount of H2O as is melting off the land based Greenland Ice Sheet and the world's glaciers....... and perhaps soon off the West Antarctic Ice Sheet so that OCEAN LEVELS ARE KEPT STABLE!!!!!!

Yes.... what I have in mind is a mega - project but.... guess what....... we are all set up to shift the flavour of the world economy somehow or another and this could be a whole lot better than what we have been doing over these last fifty years.

Necessary background information available here:

Did President Lincoln's Greenback Monetary Policy save four billion dollars?

see post #5 ....
 
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Silly me.......... but that statement was not made by me but was made by the person who I was quoting...
I know, that's why I put it in a sub-quote.

As to Who would decide where the ice should be...... the implications of this discussion are rather obvious:


Where did Intelligence begin, in matter or fundamental energy?
As to the linked OP, there's no such thing as 'fundamental' energy. Energy is an indirectly observed quantity, a property of elements of the world by reason of their physical state and/or context. Also, "energy from the quantum vacuum" is rather the 'energy of the quantum vacuum'; it's the inherent random energy of quantum uncertainty around the ground state and as such is simply not available to do useful work.

So the linked OP is what Richard Feynman used to call 'cargo-cult science'; it has the superficial appearance of science without any scientific content or value. IOW sciency-sounding pseudoscience.
 
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My goal is to desalinate and add to the water table of nations with lots of desert a comparable amount of H2O as is melting off the land based Greenland Ice Sheet and the world's glaciers....... and perhaps soon off the West Antarctic Ice Sheet so that OCEAN LEVELS ARE KEPT STABLE!!!!!!

Yes.... what I have in mind is a mega - project but.... guess what....... we are all set up to shift the flavour of the world economy somehow or another and this could be a whole lot better than what we have been doing over these last fifty years.

Necessary background information available here:

Did President Lincoln's Greenback Monetary Policy save four billion dollars?

see post #5 ....
Desalinization uses energy. Most of the world’s energy is from oil, natural gas, coal and biomass. Moving mountain tops to mine coal or pumping oil fields dry would not provide enough energy to desalinate enough water. People would run out of gasoline and only cause more global warming.

The Dead Sea in Israel is the lowest point on earth. The entire Jordan Valley and Sea of Galilee are below sea level. It would not be economical to store excess sea level rise there as it would cause destruction to the economies of Israel and Jordan. Part of New Orleans is below sea level. They would not want their homes underwater.

As for your article about wartime spending and hyperinflation, it happened. The debate continues about social spending versus spending for guns. What would Jesus do?
 
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Desalinization uses energy. Most of the world’s energy is from oil, natural gas, coal and biomass. Moving mountain tops to mine coal or pumping oil fields dry would not provide enough energy to desalinate enough water. People would run out of gasoline and only cause more global warming.

The Dead Sea in Israel is the lowest point on earth. The entire Jordan Valley and Sea of Galilee are below sea level. It would not be economical to store excess sea level rise there as it would cause destruction to the economies of Israel and Jordan. Part of New Orleans is below sea level. They would not want their homes underwater.

As for your article about wartime spending and hyperinflation, it happened. The debate continues about social spending versus spending for guns. What would Jesus do?


Sahara Forest Project -



Sahara Forest Project and Costa Crociere Foundation join forces for sustainable farming in the desert of Jordan - Sahara Forest Project



Israel ready to build Red Sea-Dead Sea project with Jordan
 
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I know, that's why I put it in a sub-quote.

As to the linked OP, there's no such thing as 'fundamental' energy. Energy is an indirectly observed quantity, a property of elements of the world by reason of their physical state and/or context. Also, "energy from the quantum vacuum" is rather the 'energy of the quantum vacuum'; it's the inherent random energy of quantum uncertainty around the ground state and as such is simply not available to do useful work.

So the linked OP is what Richard Feynman used to call 'cargo-cult science'; it has the superficial appearance of science without any scientific content or value. IOW sciency-sounding pseudoscience.
Thank you for putting the other person's statement in a sub quote but they gave their name so.... you could have given them credit for their statement.

As to fundamental energy I suggest visiting a used book store look for "Stephen Hawking's Universe" and reading chapter thirteen but my larger point for those willing to approach this with an open mind is that I am convinced that we human are actually some of the weakest....... least well informed........ least energetic........ forms of "intelligence" in the universe - multiverse.

CarbonBias.blogspot
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My point being that Mr. Al Gore giving in to Richard Dawkins Ph. D. and following his philosophy obsequiously is not particularly impressive to me, but..... his film An Inconvenient Truth was reasonably well done......... but Mr. Gore should be bright enough to realize that his film is not the final word on the topic of how best to attempt to stabilize the climate.

Global Warming
Chaim Henry Tejman M. D.:
Our environment is obviously undergoing major changes, and I believe that trees have a vital role in the atmospheric balance. Trees possess the ability to absorb much of the incoming energy. Gradually, trees that have absorbed energy submerge beneath the ground and turn into coal. Mankind is presently consuming unprecedented amounts of energy. Instead of storing the energy, like nature, we are releasing it into the atmosphere. Therefore, an international effort must be made to stop cutting down trees and to plant as many more as possible.
 
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