Red Sea Dam

I think you're missing the point that I am trying to make... and I think the website author, or perhaps whoever dreamed up the idea if it wasn't the same person.

We are not just hurtling but accelerating into rapid climate change, on a scale of 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than the PETM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...

We are heading towards 2º C in 15 years or so:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/global-warming-crit...

And twice that by end century:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/the-worst-case-climat...

A largely ice-free planet in 2 generations, with almost all terrestrial glaciers gone:

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/environment/worst-case-scena...

That means no snowpack in the mountains anywhere except Antarctica. No melting ice keeping rivers flowing. That means several billions more people without reliable water, and those are people from rich powerful nations, not poor folk in the developing world and the tropics.

That leaves stark choices, such as "abandon continental Europe and move half a billion people from 10,000 cities to the Arctic", versus "abandon half of one small country and make it the reservoir to keep rivers wet in Western and Central Europe."

Desperate times, desperate measures. Things that in normal times are inconceivable ludicrous ideas, getting done because they are the only ideas anyone has.

Ideas that seem funny: ha-ha -- suddenly being evaluated: only serious.

That is what I, and the author of this idea, are talking about.