In a message dated 7/1/01 3:24:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
mlorrey@datamann.com writes:
> From my
> calculations, filling the Caspian basin up to a level of 200 meters
> above sea level (its surface is now at ~200 below sea level as I recall)
> would reqire no dam construction to retain the water, and filling it to
> that altitude would mitigate a minimum of 1.2 meters, to perhaps as much
> as a full 2 meters of sea level in the rest of the world. How much
> depends on how much the added water depresses the landscape.
>
Technically it's doable but you would have to pay
Russia., Azerbaijan, and Khazakstan astronomical
sums of money to justify flooding so much of their
land. A couple of other countries would have
non-trivial compensation requests too. Your proposal
just points out the huge costs of even small changes
in sea level.
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