ssillyssadassOct 20

Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?

https://lemmy.world/post/37612380

Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? - Lemmy.World

I’m not proposing this as an actual solution, it’s just a dumb idea. But if we dug a huge, wide hole at the bottom of the ocean, or maybe widened the Mariana Trench or something, could that extra space make the sea levels drop enough to keep the land from flooding?

Show threadLunatiQue Goddess Oct 20
A majority of water in the planet (magnitudes larger than all the surface oceans) is within the earth so digging a whole would not fix anything. Besides the sea levels aren’t rising.
Show thread😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈Oct 20
Wrong. Now, shut up.
Show threadLunatiQue Goddess

Peons ever surprise me with their lack of understanding iere.org/where-is-most-of-the-water-on-earth-foun…

Research and research some more on other sites, publications, scientific papers. More than 5 times of the earths water is underground. Also you’ve never saw anyone step outside and say “oh no, the water is up to my shoes now because the sea levels are rising” this even goes for people who live on beachfront properties.

Where Is Most of the Water on Earth Found? - The Institute for Environmental Research and Education

Where Is Most of the Water on Earth Found? The Astonishing Truth Below Our Feet Most of the water on […]

The Institute for Environmental Research and Education
Oct 20 at 4:38pmWeb
Show threadTryingSomethingNewOct 20
Just curious, does that amount of stupid ever burn? Because when I see that amount of ignorance I saw “the stupid, it burns”.
Show threadAwesomeLowlanderOct 20

From your own link:

While approximately 97% of Earth’s water is in the oceans

🤦

Show threadLunatiQue Goddess Oct 20
Because a hole would be dug underground lmao duuh
Show threadAwesomeLowlanderOct 20
What. Do you not get the concept of volume? Forget your sites and papers and studies, you need to go back to grade school.
Show threadLunatiQue Goddess Oct 20
I’ll write that in my notes. You didn’t even know about the ground water yet you’re so sure about this hypothetical. 🐑
Show threadAwesomeLowlanderOct 20

Argh.

Look, imagine you have an aquarium. You fill the bottom half up with the solid of your choice. Gravel, sand, clay, whatever. Then you fill up the rest of it with water. You’ve created a simple model of the ocean, including the groundwater you’re talking about

Now dig out a hole in the middle and toss the sand you dug out into the trash. Your water level will lower, because you’ve removed some mass that was occupying some volume and the water will fill that empty space. You’ve successfully lowered the ocean level. It doesn’t matter how much groundwater there is, it’s totally irrelevant to the question OP posted.

Show thread😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈Oct 20

If you don’t believe in sea levels rising, you’re utterly moronic. Not another word you type holds any validity.

What a buffoon!