Build More Dams To Combat Rising Sea Levels?

[Hugh R]

Cool, I never really cared for salmon, or trout anyway.

[3.2 CAB]

Well anywho, I am glad they got the Three Gorges Dam finish and they are not sucking down the world's supply of R134A. Has not anybody noticed that you can get a 30lb jug for less than $100.00 again???

[sketchers356]

Originally Posted by jyl

I don't know about algebra errors, but one error is you are using the "volume" of the dam itself, not of the water in the reservoir created behind the dam.

You can check this - the Three Gorges dam, #1 on the list you linked, has a volume of appx 36 million cubic meters to 39 million cubic meters (sources vary) - which you can quickly check since the dam itself is 2310 meters long, 185 meters high, and thickness from 115 meters base to 40 meters top. The source you used, which says the Three Gorges dam is a volume of 39,300,000 cubic meters, is thus referring to the dam volume, not the reservoir volume. The reservoir volume is reportedly appx 9 cubic miles volume, appx 5.5 billion cubic meters.

So your calculations are off by a bit more than a bit.

Dam!

[Sapporo Guy]

ummm, just drink more water

[Porsche-O-Phile]

But global warming is FAKE, haven't you heard? It's just a made-up ploy by people intended to force the U.S. to stop polluting, which is our Gawd-given right. Don't believe it.

[Mule]

You are a liberal. Math is logical. The two are diametrically opposed. Check this guy blowing global warming up completely.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337710,00.html#

[Joeaksa]

We have major systems now that are not full as it is, so why build more?

Look at the Las Vegas area and how far below its normal level it has been for years now.

[sammyg2]

Sounds like an awful lot of work (and money) for a measly couple of inches. The planet is big. The continents are big. Who the freak cares about a 1.3" rise in sea level over 70 years?

BTW, the sea levels are going to drop. They changed their minds about global warming, now it's an impending ice age.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

But global warming is FAKE, haven't you heard? It's just a made-up ploy by people intended to force the U.S. to stop polluting, which is our Gawd-given right. Don't believe it.

NOW you're making sense. A post I can agree with completely (but for some reason it was green. I fixed that).

[Mule]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

But global warming is FAKE, haven't you heard? It's just a made-up ploy by people intended to force the U.S. to stop polluting, which is our Gawd-given right. Don't believe it.

Fixed it for you.
Global warming is FAKE, haven't you heard? It's just a made-up ploy by socialists intended to force the U.S. to turn over their money. Don't believe it.

[island911]

Originally Posted by jyl

Interesting article, linked below.

Since 1930, the sea level has risen by 6-some inches. But it would have risen by 1.3 inches more, if not for all the dams and reservoirs mankind has built in the last 80 years. As few mega-dams are being built now, this offset to rising sea levels is fading.

So what you're saying is, that 20 feet of sea level rise (per AlGore and UN) won't be seen ... not because Global warming is a an over-blown sham, but because China is building an uber-big dam. (?)


Personally, I think the sea levels haven't changed much due to this new 'bottled water craze.' http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/NaomiSaintJean.shtml

Well that and people developing larger bladders. ..the eqns couldn't really work with out the larger bladders. Keep those sea levels where they are! Hold it as long as you can. If you can't, I will sell you urination credits. see "Free2Pee.com" Paypal accepted. Save out seas! --send me MONEY! . . er, I mean FOR MOTHER EARTH!

[GDSOB]

The problems is these water saver toilets. The tanks are smaller and hold less water.

We need more toilets.

[RWebb]

"Why are scientists the biggest skeptics of global warming?"

- They aren't. If you think that, you have been misinformed. The general trend is up - way up, despite Isl's single data point out of context.

Please point me to the articles in scientific journals disputing global warming???

Dams on this scale would, of course, flood vast amounts of farm land, driving food prices thru the roof.

It is not a well-considered idea.

You need to get at the root causes of global warming and they are well-known. CO2 emissions & methane emissions.

[island911]

Originally Posted by RWebb

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You need to get at the root causes of global warming and they are well-known. CO2 emissions & methane emissions.

OH Really!?!

I always figured the globe was warmed by the big ball o' fusion in the sky. And, that a 'green-house effect' was driven by water vapor. AND, that the contribution of CO₂ as a 'green-house gas' has yet to be established. That, CO₂ cycles thru living and dead carbon-based life via the oceans and atmosphere. Where the evidence shows that atmospheric CO₂ levels rise AFTER warming of the globe -- like when that big ball o' fusion burps a bit in our direction.

But feel free to believe that the root causes of global warming CO2 emissions & methane emissions.

[nostatic]

assume a spherical cow...