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Immediate and dramatic policy changes are needed to stop the destruction of the world from climate change. I recommend. Levy a huge carbon tax and a tax on solar and wind energy about 75% of the level of the carbon tax. Use the proceeds to build a huge dam across the Fram Strait connecting Iceland to Greenland to cut off the flow of Atlantic water to the Arctic. Some limited sluices could be allowed for shopping. To be equitable to the Third World, distribute the money among Third World leaders, to hire and manage the dam-building project.
The science shows that much of this comes from the Rapid Atlantification along the Fram Strait at the beginning of the 20th century and Arctic Ocean has been ‘Atlantifying’ for at least a century. A similar article appeared in today's New York Times,This Ocean Invaded Its Neighbor Earlier Than Anyone Thought. This is the flow of relatively warm, saline Atlantic waters from the Gulf Stream into the Arctic Ocean, a sea that is not really well-bounded from the Atlantic. This is addressed in the Great Debates thread, Climate Change and Atlantification of Arctic - Warming Has Been Ongoing for Over 100 Years. Its boundaries are more a cartographic construct than anything, but the Arctic Ocean has a disproportionate effect on world climate. Remember, the temperature increases are much greater in the Arctic. This affects weather patters throughout the Northern hemisphere. More directly, rising water threatens to inundate coastal cities from New York to Rotterdam to Lisbon.
These are the "immediate and dramatic policy changes", but designed to ameliorate Third-World poverty, racism, gender inequality and climate change.
We must build in a bold, imaginative manner.
The science shows that much of this comes from the Rapid Atlantification along the Fram Strait at the beginning of the 20th century and Arctic Ocean has been ‘Atlantifying’ for at least a century. A similar article appeared in today's New York Times,This Ocean Invaded Its Neighbor Earlier Than Anyone Thought. This is the flow of relatively warm, saline Atlantic waters from the Gulf Stream into the Arctic Ocean, a sea that is not really well-bounded from the Atlantic. This is addressed in the Great Debates thread, Climate Change and Atlantification of Arctic - Warming Has Been Ongoing for Over 100 Years. Its boundaries are more a cartographic construct than anything, but the Arctic Ocean has a disproportionate effect on world climate. Remember, the temperature increases are much greater in the Arctic. This affects weather patters throughout the Northern hemisphere. More directly, rising water threatens to inundate coastal cities from New York to Rotterdam to Lisbon.
These are the "immediate and dramatic policy changes", but designed to ameliorate Third-World poverty, racism, gender inequality and climate change.
We must build in a bold, imaginative manner.