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

dqhall said:

Aqaba, Jordan and Eilat, Israel are within sight of each other and are sustained by tourism as Red Sea coral reef snorkeling is popular. Europeans went there in the winter. There was a hotel on the Egyptian shore near them at Taba. It was blown up by Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda drove Christians out of El Arish in the Sinai. Preaching Christianity to Jews is illegal in Israel.

I do not know of any farms sustained with desalinated irrigation water. The areas south of Beersheva are not good for tree farms. There is limited desert scrub vegetation in erosion galleys. It is not forest. The Dead Sea has some tourist hotels, mud treatments and swimming in the Dead Sea. They have large scale evaporation ponds to extract salts including potassium chloride - potash. There is phosphate mining in the Negev.

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SkyWriting said:

How Israel used desalination to address its water shortage

Solar desalination: gravity - Elemental Water Makers
www.elementalwatermakers.com › solutions › solar-desalination-gravity
Jan 24, 2020 - We developed the world's first solar-powered reverse osmosis without batteries. This means unlimited sustainable water from abundant resources for islands.

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DennisTate said:

A lot of ice has been melting off the land based Greenland Ice Sheet and the world glaciers so why have we seen so little rise in ocean levels?

Up until now the GROWTH of the Antarctic ice sheet has balanced things out.




The rate of ice sheet growth though on Antarctica seems to be slowing down.



NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses

So what should we do?

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 so the logic of why we should burden our businesses and taxpayers with billions and tens of billions in taxes for something that we cannot do much about is terribly illogical.

There is a better way though!

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