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In this scenario, would it be realistic to damn the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal? It seems that that would save most of southern and eastern Europe,
by matteotom 12y ago
In this scenario, would it be realistic to damn the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal?
It seems that that would save most of southern and eastern Europe, as well as northern Africa.
- lisper 12y agoEven if you could (and you almost certainly couldn't) Rain would eventually fill the Mediterranean if you did.
- mkl 12y agoActually, no, the Mediterranean evaporates faster than rain fills it. In the past, when the Straits of Gibraltar have been closed, it has dried out completely, or nearly so [1], and it's 5 kilometres deep! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis
- lisper 12y agoWell, dam! ;-) Learn something new every day.
- ghshephard 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa Also, apparently done in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle