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Exactly as shown in Mr. Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth an astonishing amount of melting is occurring in the Arctic ice as well as in all glaciers worldwide.
So why haven't sea levels rose significantly?
Because the super cold central region of Antarctica is acting like a black hole in that as soon as a cloud goes over it, the ice is three kilometers or more in altitude already in many areas, the clouds drop their moisture as snow or freezing rain. Once ice is added to the central region of Antarctica it can be stable for 650,000 years or more barring even further rise in global temperatures.
My conclusion is that we should consider an alternative method of combatting climate change.There is a biologist in New Mexico named Carl Cantrell who advocates that we can directly combat climate change by initiating a massive program of desalination of ocean water and pumping it to the ridges in North Africa so that we turn more of the Sahara Desert green.
His theory makes a lot of sense.
1. China has had great success at turning deserts areas green by planting and irrigating some species of bamboo. Bamboo often grows a root system for five years before beginning to shoot up above ground at an astounding rate. Obviously lots of vegetation or trees or bamboo in North Africa will create a significant CARBON SINK.
2. Biologist Cantrell has stated that the bulk of the heat going into the atmosphere is coming from the world's top five deserts. He stated that satellite images in infrared show that the deserts radiate far more heat into the atmosphere than our cities do. His idea is that by turning deserts green we would directly reduce the amount of heat going into the atmosphere. I believe that he is correct in this assertion.
3. It is theoreticallly possible to pump salt water to a large aquaculture facility on or near a ridge in North Africa, produce fish through aquaculture, then desalinate the salt water by solar energy. Every cubic meter of H2O added to the water table of North Africa or the Middle East will NOT be ON TOP OF Holland, or the State of Florida or the city of New Orleans in the event that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to collapse!
4. There are one billion hungry people on this earth. If monetary policy is altered so that they could purchase fish or food grown in the world's desert areas, then if a billion hungry people were to purchase a thousand dollars worth of groceries, this would mean that ONE TRILLION dollars had just been directed into combating climate change!
climateprogress.org/2009/12/02/climategate-newsweek-nasa-james-hansen-deniers-climate-science/
So why haven't sea levels rose significantly?
Because the super cold central region of Antarctica is acting like a black hole in that as soon as a cloud goes over it, the ice is three kilometers or more in altitude already in many areas, the clouds drop their moisture as snow or freezing rain. Once ice is added to the central region of Antarctica it can be stable for 650,000 years or more barring even further rise in global temperatures.
My conclusion is that we should consider an alternative method of combatting climate change.There is a biologist in New Mexico named Carl Cantrell who advocates that we can directly combat climate change by initiating a massive program of desalination of ocean water and pumping it to the ridges in North Africa so that we turn more of the Sahara Desert green.
His theory makes a lot of sense.
1. China has had great success at turning deserts areas green by planting and irrigating some species of bamboo. Bamboo often grows a root system for five years before beginning to shoot up above ground at an astounding rate. Obviously lots of vegetation or trees or bamboo in North Africa will create a significant CARBON SINK.
2. Biologist Cantrell has stated that the bulk of the heat going into the atmosphere is coming from the world's top five deserts. He stated that satellite images in infrared show that the deserts radiate far more heat into the atmosphere than our cities do. His idea is that by turning deserts green we would directly reduce the amount of heat going into the atmosphere. I believe that he is correct in this assertion.
3. It is theoreticallly possible to pump salt water to a large aquaculture facility on or near a ridge in North Africa, produce fish through aquaculture, then desalinate the salt water by solar energy. Every cubic meter of H2O added to the water table of North Africa or the Middle East will NOT be ON TOP OF Holland, or the State of Florida or the city of New Orleans in the event that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to collapse!
4. There are one billion hungry people on this earth. If monetary policy is altered so that they could purchase fish or food grown in the world's desert areas, then if a billion hungry people were to purchase a thousand dollars worth of groceries, this would mean that ONE TRILLION dollars had just been directed into combating climate change!
