SAFELY ADDRESSING ADAPTATION ON A GLOBAL SCALE! by Johnnie Buttram
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History clearly proves that forced migration without food, water, and shelter creates uncontrollable chaos and desperation.
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Summary
The World Meteorological (WMO) has reported that drought kills
and displaces more people than cyclones, floods, and earthquakes
combined . . making it the world's most destructive natural hazard.
In March 2007, when I was doing research on this Siphonics
Natural Engineering (SNE) project . . CO2 was 384 parts per million
. . innovation and solution was the cliche' and global warming
deniers were everywhere.
7 years have past - CO2 is 400 parts per million and moving upward
. . the words; adaptation and migration have replaced innovation
and solution . . and detractors and solution delayers are
everywhere.
The global masses are becoming more and more concerned that
misplaced priorities of today may be a recipe for the disasters of
tommorow.
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I recently read an article about John Bradfield, a credible man in
Australia, who in 1938 could find no one to listen when he called
for flooding the dry lake, Lake Eyre, so that evaporation would
create clouds and rain for inland Australia.
68 years later in 2006, John Vidal of The Guardian reported,
"Australia suffers worst drought in 1,000 years."
It's now 2014, and desertification is on the move in places never
seen before or anticipated.
Research shows that waterborne diseases killed over 6,000
people today on our planet and most of them were children. What
could be worse than watching your children die en-route to a drink
of water?
The sad simple truth is . . if planetary leaders fail to think and act
big enough to return atmospheric moisture back to the
driest places on the planet . . WE ARE GOING TO BURN UP . .
BURN DOWN . . AND SUFFICATE "INSIDE-THE- BOX" !
The United Nations just issued a report that stresses water
supplies, aggravated by climate change, are likely to cause more
conflicts, and that water should be considered as vital to national
security as defense.
PLANET EARTH NEEDS SERIOUS MEDICINE!
Category of the action
Mitigation/Adaptation, Changing public attitudes about climate change
What actions do you propose?
. . . A True Story . . .
Fourteen years ago at the age of 57, I told everyone who
would listen . . I believed we could have a better world by
exchanging the excesses of today for the essentials of tomorrow.
With our daughter and son being adults and no longer at home,
my wife (a retired teacher) and I personally built a cabin off-the-
grid in the Kiamichi Mountains of Oklahoma.
We wanted to experience the challenges associated with
what Henry David Thoreau advocated when he stated,
"Simplify, Simplify, Simplify."
When it was over 100 degrees F in the shade, there was
no electricity to power the AC. We used propane to cool our
food, cook, and heat.
When our well was dry, we hauled water.
We used a solar panel to charge our phone and
computer batteries.
But there is a peace and solitude, you feel when you have
a natural setting of howling coyotes about 30 feet from
your screened-in porch at night.
Although extremely labor intensive . . this 10 year journey
helped us overview, evaluate, and reprioritize our lives to
hopefully make a difference.
All we had to do was purposely exchange those things we
had always taken for granted and retain the essentials.
This ten year project also helped us realize that if Planet Earth
was thrust into a situation where the essentials of food, water,
and shelter were no longer available . . the chaos of mass
migration in a lawless world could become a planetary nightmare of
life and death.
In fact, this 10 year journey outside our comfort zone helped me
to evaluate three realities . . .
(1) With ample food, water, and shelter . . there is NORMALCY!
(2) With limited food, water, and shelter . . there is ADAPTATION!
(3) Without food, water, and shelter . . there is MIGRATION
and CHAOS!
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Seven years ago as a researcher and inventor . . I begin
to seriously explore Siphonics Natural Engineering (SNE) as
the nucleus of an overlapping adaptation strategy designed to
help Planet Earth maintain the bare essentials of food, water,
and shelter.
. . . These are the results of my findings . . .
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Deserts, which consumes approximately (one/third) of the Earth's
surface - without water, are bastions for suffering and are basically
useless.
It been estimated that one CSP / Seawater Greenhouse (78 square
miles) located on the desert will evaporate approximately one million tons
of seawater per day.
The desert around Tucson, Arizona (USA) receives (12) inches of rain
per year. However, this desert has the capacity to evaporate (100+)
inches of water per year. Eight times more than received.
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" THERMAL / EXCHANGE"
(ONE PERCENT) of the land mass and Thermal/Exchange potential
of the hot deserts of our world , in combination with seawater,
WILL EVAPORATE OVER (252) BILLION TONS OF SEAWATER
EVERY 460 DAYS.
The "KEY" is to remove, replace, or usurp any strategic barrier
which separates UN-EQUAL Water / Land levels so that nature can
repair and heal itself.
When we remove any barrier that blocks the ocean's ability to F-L-
O-W into / onto the desert land below sea level, we have the
opportunity to create the hydration to provide the essentials for
the masses.
This process can turn barren uninhabited land into crops of saltwater
plants of cord grass, pickle weed, salt grass, and others which have
evolved mechanisms that will allow them to survive in saline conditions
to sustain a large variety of animals.
After years of desert irrigation from the ocean . . . pools of shallow
saltwater ponds will be able ro grow Sargassium muticum for sources of
local food and energy.
Deeper pools may be able to sustain the Mediterrean sea fish, Tilapia, as
they can survive saltwater to 44 parts per thousand.
At night, the evaporation condenses and falls back to Earth where
catchments, like fog fences and air wells, collect the atmospheric
humidity for human, plant, and animal consumption.
Highly saturated clouds of short duration will cause rain-out every (10)
days and especially ice and snow on mountain ranges. This run-off will
provide hydration for the innocent masses located between latitudes 35
degrees north and 35 degrees south.
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. . . (SNE) IS SAFE . . .
When we remove, replace, or usurp any barrier that blocks the
oceans' ability to F-L-O-W into / onto the desert land below sea
level, the #1 objective of this solution hinges on the engineering
option to SAFELY slow or stop the process anytime we need to
tweak or make an adjustment.
The power-ends extend inland below sea level and contain manual
or automated, canal gates for safe , open, shut, and adjustment
situations contingent on coordinated climate data retrieved by
world-wide consultants.
Water flow management and adjustments will be made under the
direct focus of the environmental impact director and staff, who
are in charge of coordinating climate impact data retrieved by
world-wide consultants and host country universities of each
application.
Who will take these actions?
Governments, institutions, collations, consortiums, Nonprofit
Organizations (NPOs), Non-government Organizations (NGOs) and
individuals concerned about the welfare of everyone on Planet
Earth.
Where will these actions be taken?
A Global application would consist of (nine) deserts and (eleven) teams.
(Nine) deserts will have (one) team, the Sahara Desert would have (two)
teams.
The (nine) deserts are Arabian, Australian, Chihuahuan, Kalahari,
Mojave, Monte, Sonoran, Thar, and Sahara.
Please note; The above deserts and applications are flexible and subject
to change upon more discovery.
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Will these deserts fill up with too much water?
Most deserts sometimes have sand &/or gravel, etc. one hundred feet
before reaching a bottom to substantiate water flow.
To shut off water flow from the sea . . (SNE) has the engineering option
to safely, open, shut, and make adjustments of the conduit gates
contingent on coordinated climate data retrieved by world-wide
consultants.
What are other key benefits?
. . . THE "KEY" TO NO CARBON ENERGY . . .
We also have the option to use conduits to F-L-O-W seawater
into / onto the desert lands below sea level where each conduit
becomes a penstock that powers Hydro-Electric Turbines to
provide NO CARBON ENERGY to the masses.
. . . THE "KEY" TO NEUTRALIZING COASTAL FLOODING . . .
The National Climate Assessment report believes our planet may
have a 16+ inch rise in sea level in the next 50 years.
Many top engineers and climate experts agree the Sahara Desert
alone contains the holding capacity to absorb (one) meter + of sea
expansion.
As the oceans continue to rise due to ice melt and thermal
expansion, many also agree that no later than 2070, over 150
million residents will be exposed to coastal flooding with lost
revenue exceeding $ 35 Trillion (USD).
What are the proposal’s costs?
The objective, if possible, is to lease all equipment and contract
personnel. Specialized machines will re-arrange land mass
formations until elevations and water volumes meet required
specifications.
As an example ; we could use the easier to handle "72" inch
diameter polyethylene pipes at a approximate cost of $320 per
lineal foot or the huge diameter polyethylene conduits
manufactured by weholite in the UK.
A "72" inch pipe diameter (penstock) will flow approximately (500)
thousand tons of water per day.
These "72" inch pipes, connected together, will extend far enough
into the ocean where one end will always be submerged in low
tide.
The other end will extend below sea level and contain "72" inch
manually operated canal gates for open, shut, and adjustment
situations.
They will be screened, buttressed, and secured with concrete and
riprap.
Each of the (11) locations will contain (100) penstock applications.
When fully operational, each (100) penstock location will have a
flow capability of (50) million tons of water per day.
The Sahara project will contain (2) locations of (100) penstock
applications per operation. This (200) penstock flow capacity upon
the Sahara will be approximately (100) million tons of water per day.
The total flow capacity of (1100) penstocks on (10) desert locations
on Planet Earth, has the Thermal / Exchange potential of (550)
million tons of sea-water to atmospheric moisture per day.
These (1100) - " 72" inch taps would have to run approximately
(460) days at full capacity to reach the (252) billion tons required to
equal (ONE PERCENT) of the land mass and Thermal / Exchange
potential of the hot deserts of our world.
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I believe with planetary cooperation, (11) basic infrastructure
operations could be installed. This would be (1100) - "72" penstock
applications installed on the (9) hottest deserts of the planet for $
2 . 65 Billion (USD).
Time line
The time line is contingent on how many world leaders will set aside the
frivolity that drives us apart . . and act before the International impact of
drought - food - and water supplies directly impact those within their
responsibility.
Planetary leaders, who fail to appropriately address this delicate variable
time frame, may sadly witness a massive die-out of those within their
responsibility.
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I, sincerely, believe this Seawater / Desert / Evaporation to Rain-out
Proposal contains the potential to;
. . . HELP . . .
(a) Neutralize sea expansion and coastal flooding.
(b) Provide no carbon energy.
(c) Provide food and water for the masses.
(d) Recycle over and over to sand filter our polluted oceans.
(e) Replenish and provide the albedo we need to cool and heal our planet
naturally.
Related proposals
Adaptation to Climate Change, "A Common Sense Transition To Adaptation!"
Geoengineering, "CO2 Enhancement Process."
Communicating Coastal Risk and Resilience, "Coastal Reef, Barrier, and Fish Development on a Shoestring Budget!"
Global plan, "Strategically Transitioning To Global Adaptation!"
References
Cloudtec is a net environmental, pollution removal and cooling process!
The fine Line Between Adaptation and Migration!
The Fine Line Between Adaptation and Migration!
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Additional information concerning polyethylene conduits may be found at . . .
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If our planetary leaders continue thinking "inside-the-box",
declining to be connected, and choosing the indecision of
business as usual, Planet Earth will inevitably succumb to our
vices and superficial reasoning.
We must seek the greater good as caretakers of Planet Earth.
By:
Johnnie Buttram
