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This is the first case i know of where researchers publicly sidestep the Precautionary Principle. That is scary-especially for something like this.
ASW
For some time now, deniers/debunkers have claimed that climate change is not caused by consumption of forests and fossil fuels. They have claimed that it is caused by normal variations — including tilting of Earth’s axis.
But even the tilting of Earth’s axis may have human causes.
I don’t have references available, but many on this list have seen studies indicating that the world’s hydroelectric and irrigation dams have measurably changed the planet’s tilt on its axis. So a huge dam like the one described below may have worldwide impact for that reason.
Lance Olsen
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Public release date: 6-Dec-2007
Inderscience Publishers
Contact: Roelof Dirk Schuiling
schuiling@geo.uu.nl
Dam the Red Sea and release gigawatts
50 gigawatts of electrical power could be released by damming the Red Sea
Damming the Red Sea could solve the growing energy demands of millions of people in the Middle East and alleviate some of the region’s tensions pertaining to oil supplies through hydroelectric power. Equally, such a massive engineering project may cause untold ecological harm and displace countless people from their homes.
In the Inderscience publication International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Roelof Dirk Schuiling of Utrecht University in The Netherlands and his colleagues discuss the costs and benefits of one of the potentially most ambitious engineering projects ever.