Green New Deal - Climate change in general

Along those lines, there has been an idea floated in the past involving the Salton Sea.  In case you don't know, the Salton Sea was created by accident, an engineering failure at the Colorado river that poured water into the area for about 2 years.  The area is an ancient seabed and actually stretches down to the Gulf of California.  Now, with no inlet or outlet, the Salton sea just continues to become more polluted & saline due to runoff from surrounding farms.

The idea floated is to trench as needed to once again connect the Salton Sea to the Gulf of California.  A huge undertaking, with some major impact:

• It would "save" the Salton Sea, giving it a fresh influx & outflow of ocean water;
  
  
• It could create an inland port or ports, an alternate place for shipments to arrive other than San Diego, LA or Long Beach;
  
  
• It would create value for land surrounding the entire channel that now is basically worthless desert;
  
  
• There would be huge economic impact as far as recreational & business dollars along an inland sea;
  
  
• Lastly (my thought), it would offset some ocean rising issues by flooding enormous amounts of now dry desert land.  I have no idea how much relief it would create, but it would be a way to get the green folks on board.

With apologies to over-moderation, I moved the above two posts to this thread.

With all the talk over rising oceans, I wondered if there had ever been a time when the oceans receded. The comments on the Salton Sea are interesting about it being an ancient sea.

I ran across another piece that suggests the ocean floor is actually sinking with the weight of the additional water. That possibility hadn't occurred to me, and it makes sense intuitively.



www.livescience.com/61328-ocean-bottom-is-sinking.html

Possibly, I'm not sure how to figure that out.  I guess you could estimate the billions (?) of gallons of water that would fill the new inland sea & divide it by the entire surface area of all the oceans in the world.  It is hard for me to imagine that it wouldn't work out to an inch or so of surface area removed from around the world.  Then again, it is only 100+ miles or so from the Salton Sea to the tip of the Gulf of California, so maybe my perspective is all off.

By the way, the "trench" I am envisioning is not a Panama Canal type deal, but a literal extension of the Gulf of California.  Very wide and as deep as the topography will allow.  Cities or communities along the route could carve out harbors, bays or whatever they want to take advantage of the new waterway.  Imagine Brawley as being a new vacation destination...

Possibly, I'm not sure how to figure that out.  I guess you could estimate the billions (?) of gallons of water that would fill the new inland sea & divide it by the entire surface area of all the oceans in the world.  It is hard for me to imagine that it wouldn't work out to an inch or so of surface area removed from around the world.  Then again, it is only 100+ miles or so from the Salton Sea to the tip of the Gulf of California, so maybe my perspective is all off.[/quote]

This doesn't take into account the expansion of water as it warms, but seems to get you in the midset of how to figure it out.

Yep Fate, we use to take field trips in Cub and Boy Scouts to go look for fish and fern fossils in them hills. I still have a nice fish fossil in my boxes of childhood stuff...!

So...where did all the water go? With those shark teeth being found, have to assume oceans were that high.