Meeting Paris Agreement ambition could save a lot of sea level rise

Latest models project a bumpy road with big risks.

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[C64 raids Bungling Bay]

The answer is simple. Just pump sea water from the warm coastal rim to the cold interior of Antarctica. I'd go nuclear plant for the pumps, but there is a lot of wind energy from the cold winds blowing down to lower elevation.

Now the bad news: you only need about 362 km^3 of water pumped for each mm of sea level rise.

http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacie ... evel-rise/

Sarcastic? Not really. Impractical, most likely. But Elon might make it work, if you tell him Bezos is ahead of him in trying it.

(Fixed link, and added gripe about cm's. Inches, feet, or proper MKS SI units please)

 

[C64 raids Bungling Bay]

The answer is simple. Just pump sea water from the warm coastal rim to the cold interior of Antarctica. I'd go nuclear plant for the pumps, but there is a lot of wind energy from the cold winds blowing down to lower elevation.

Now the bad news: you only need about 362 km^3 of water pumped for each mm of sea level rise.

http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacie ... evel-rise/

Sarcastic? Not really. Impractical, most likely. But Elon might make it work, if you tell him Bezos is ahead of him in trying it.

(Fixed link, and added gripe about cm's. Inches, feet, or proper MKS SI units please)

It may well come down to insane engineering efforts to avoid extinction.

I'm really intrigued by the idea of space based mirrors to block out sun light. They could get us an adjustment knob for the Earth's temperature. If we fuck up and cool too much, just turn them away or deorbit them. It won't solve ocean acidification or anything like that, but maybe it could be a good e brake for our massive fuckup.

The cost of chucking up that much mylar into some orbit between the Earth and sun might not be so crazy given what SpaceX is doing. Starship and Super Heavy are far from the largest they plan to ever build.

Space based mirrors are also de facto solar sails. May need to orbit around the earth, because you probably can't just have them orbiting the sun inside the earth's orbit. You might want to aim the reflected energy somewhere useful too, we're going to need power in space, and nukes won't do it all.

BTW, you'll want similar mirrors to help warm up up Mars