Mitic CLIMATE ENGINEERING FOR AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT.

Using huge 12m tides for erosion assisted excavation of land channels and maintenance after
Huge tidal erosion can revive paleo old dormant mighty rivers, creeks and lakes.
AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE MELIORATION MODIFICATION TO PRODUCE MORE

CLOUDS AND RAIN ACROSS AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT.

Erosion trigger channel + huge tides = huge erosion of land tidal channels = low cost excavation with erosion = land desalination = more clouds = more rain = cooler climate = huge carbon sink

Ask the farmer that got trouble with erosion because of rain

what erosion would huge 12m tides do.

Ask the scientist how big will evaporation be in bone – dry scorching hot desert if tidal system of canal and channels is made by erosion assisted excavation.

1. evaporation from saline tidal water, canals, channels, tidal lakes, tidal marshes
2. transpiration from mangroves and other sea water tolerating plants
3. transpiration from rain forest around, ( tidal evaporation 1 and 2 = more rain = rainforest 3)

Ask the engineer if it can be done.

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Ask the economist would project be economical
if less: cyclones,floods, droughts, bushfires,

much more hydro energy

Greener deserts, more clouds,
more water in rivers lakes and soil
Cooler Australian climate.

for more see:

http://www.royalcommission.vic.gov.au/Submissions/SubmissionDocuments/SUBM-002-010-0001_R.pdf

http://www.theage.com.au/national/its-not-drought-its-climate-change-say-scientists-20090829-f3cd.html

The R^2 value is around 85. The slope of the line is around -4.80 mm per .01 degree centigrade. (I should point out that obviously this trend has not covered one full degree centigrade rise in global temperature anomaly – it only covers a .3 degree rise). If this trend continues for .6 degrees, the system will come close to meeting the technical definition of a desert.

.’…..of particular concern for water resource management agencies have been recent record low inflows or river run-offs into the Murray-Darling Basin.’

Does anyone know what the inflows for the MDB have been since 2005? Or have a link?

I’m completely in agreement with all that, Barry – in fact I was trying to argue exactly the same thing, in response to Ian George’s post about precipitation patterns compared to CO2 levels.

For instance, when I said “clearly the SE Australian drought is not a direct result of changes in the CO2 level” I meant that it’s not a direct physical response to 390ppm or whatever of CO2 in the atmosphere, it’s a response to all the other changes in the climate system, such as temperature rises, circulation changes, etc, which are happening as a result of the CO2 increase (and many other forcings, of course).

Climate models — based on physical science — do not predict planetary-wide drying. They predict an overall wettening of the planet, with drying around the Mediterranean regions — just as is being observed. This is a straw man.

“Precipitation levels and rainfall patterns are influenced by many factors. To look simply at CO2 levels in a system as complex as climate, especially on a regional scale, is to miss the real picture.

Did you read and understand the linked paper by Timbal, or the IPCC chapters on this topic? If so, you will see careful explanation of the many factors that ARE indeed being considered, and note that it is not simply looking at CO2. Another straw man.

Matt, I suggest you study the reference paper a little more carefully.

However, regional effects are generally much more significant than global trends, and the changes described in the article are due to shifts in climate systems (ENSO, the poleward migration of tropical regions, and so on).

Precipitation levels and rainfall patterns are influenced by many factors. To look simply at CO2 levels in a system as complex as climate, especially on a regional scale, is to miss the real picture. The earlier periods you mention at the start of the 20th century and around WWII had significantly lower temperatures than today; and the various climatic features of the region have begun to shift as a result of ocean temperature rises in particular, as well as other factors such as the changes in wind patterns around the Antarctic, etc etc. Climate ain’t simple.

The Atmospheric Vortex Engine http://vortexengine.ca

The Seawater Greenhouse http://www.seawatergreenhouse.com

The first not only makes carbon-free electricity, but can be made to function as an artificial “super-tree” to provide humidity, cloud-cover.

In Almeria, Spain, (arid) greenhouses have reduced the local temperature by 0.3 C, while the rest of Spain has seen its temperature increase by 0.6 C. They’ve been using groundwater for this, and must switch to sea water.

It can be done with the help of the Vortex-assisted updrafts tied to connection ducts leaving the greenhouses.

Desalinated water at $2+ per kL will be far too expensive to grow food. I think farming will have to become more localised and water efficient eg suburban hydroponic farms. Forget population growth unless it is the tropical north. Meanwhile the southern cities will remain in denial they have grown too large.