"Using exhausted freshwater aquifers as gigantic natural storage tanks for ocean water.... Channeling millions of gallons of seawater inland could have unintended consequences for fragile deserts."
Ummm, I'd RATHER NOT DESTROY our FRESH WATER AQUIFERS by pumping ocean water into them, thanks!
"Scientist raises interest in seawater farming" by Marla Dickerson, Los Angeles Times | July 27, 2008
TASTIOTA, Mexico - The crop is salicornia. It is nourished by seawater flowing from a manmade canal. And if you believe the American who is farming it, this incongruous swath of green has the potential to feed the world, fuel our vehicles, and slow global warming.
Sigh: Global Warming Debate Over
He is Carl Hodges, a Tucson-based atmospheric physicist who has spent most of his 71 years figuring out how humans can feed themselves where good soil and fresh water are in short supply.
And look at all the starvation in the world; can you say FAILURE, readers?
His work has attracted an eclectic band of admirers. They include heads of state, corporate chieftains, and Hollywood stars.
I'm already not trusting it!
Here in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, he's thinking much bigger. He wants to channel the ocean into manmade "rivers" to nourish commercial aquaculture operations, mangrove forests, and crops that produce food and fuel. This greening of desert coastlines, he said, could add millions of acres of productive farmland and sequester vast quantities of carbon dioxide, the primary culprit in global warming.
Hodges contends that it also could neutralize sea-level rise, in part by using exhausted freshwater aquifers as gigantic natural storage tanks for ocean water.
This the guy who thought ethanol would be good idea?
Analyzing recent projections of ice melt occurring in the Antarctic and Greenland, Hodges calculates that diverting the equivalent of three Mississippi Rivers inland would do the trick.
Sigh. I get so sick of the shit shovel!
I really do!
Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center, and other scientists say seawater agriculture could prove to be an important weapon in the fight against climate change. All Hodges needs is $35 million.
Oh, now we see what it comes down to (always): $$$$!!!!
A so-called halophyte, or salt-loving plant, the briny succulent thrives in hellish heat and pitiful soil on a little more than a regular dousing of ocean water. Several countries are experimenting with salicornia and other saltwater-tolerant species as sources of food. Known in some restaurants as sea asparagus, salicornia can be eaten fresh or steamed, squeezed into cooking oil, or ground into high-protein meal.
Umm, I'll pass, thanks!
Hodges, who heads the nonprofit Seawater Foundation, plugged salicornia for years as the plant to help end world hunger. Do-gooders applauded. The private sector yawned.
Then oil prices exploded. Salicornia can be converted into biofuel. And, unlike grain-based ethanol, it doesn't need rain or prime farmland, and it doesn't distort global food markets.
Oh, so they ADMIT THAT NOW?
Some environmentalists are dubious. Channeling millions of gallons of seawater inland could have unintended consequences for fragile deserts, said biologist Exequiel Ezcurra, a former head of Mexico's National Ecology Institute.
Ya' think?
And where's your $35 mill, right?
Isn't this how the ethanol debacle got started?
Go CHEW some of your SHIT WEED, asshole globalist!
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