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2017-05-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Arab sheikhs to change the climate in the region, bringing an iceberg from Antarctica

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-07 03:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 ...Y'know, this has been proposed I don't know how many times in my lifetime, but nobody's ever actually tried it.

And given the stark screaming berserk terror over the loss of ice in the Antarctic, I'm sure we're going to hear the Usual Suspects denounce this idea any time now...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-05-07 08:17|| 2017-05-07 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure we're going to hear the Usual Suspects denounce this idea any time now

No way, Islam trumps all the rest of SJ/environment issues.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-07 08:21|| 2017-05-07 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Ditto Mike. I think I saw an exhibit about this at the NY World's Fair in '64 right next to the atomic powered Panama Canal replacement and the clearing the Amazon for farming.

Seems that the energy required to move a berg is rather more than is economical.

Posted by AlanC 2017-05-07 08:24|| 2017-05-07 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 ultimately the UAE will end up using Israeli desalinization technology, perhaps laundered through a dummy corporation in Leb or Cyprus

Posted by lord garth 2017-05-07 08:44|| 2017-05-07 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I read a short story once that described strapping a nuclear propulsion plant onto an iceberg which they then smashed into Africa for fresh water. Made a port after it all melted. I wondered at the time how many tugboats you would need ....

Posted by Elmomoger Fleath6537 2017-05-07 10:28|| 2017-05-07 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I remember Qaddafi and his secret cavernous water reserves. Easy to work a deal in my opinion.

Posted by Dale 2017-05-07 13:21|| 2017-05-07 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 It seems a large area of Africa has large underground water reserves(5000 years old). In my area they drilled on a mountain. The water found was at three hundred feet deep. The bit and pipe broke off. Two hundred feet of it fell into the lake of underground water. They sent a camera down to find it. It wasn't found. It had fallen to a depth as yet undetermined. I have heard it said that within the earth exists water quantities much greater than currently exists in our oceans.

Posted by Dale 2017-05-07 13:31|| 2017-05-07 13:31|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 Yep. Desal is the answer.

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-07 20:10|| 2017-05-07 20:10|| Front Page Top

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