Soon to be Worldwide Water Shortage??, page 3

Originally posted by Indy
Well said Majic. And even if they said "worst flood ever" would it really be the worst flood ever? Or just the worst flood in recorded history which in reality only means since like 1880 or so when the NWS was founded. I am unsure of the exact year.
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Personally I would describe the dust bowl era as more alarming than what we call global warming today and we certainly survived that.

I think you are tlaking about the explosion of the Krakatoa volcano, in 1883 which started making up to 100 m waves, but which attenuated rapidly and reached islands and coastlines in many places around the world at 40-50m high waves.

There are stories that the waves travelled all around the world, of course the height of the waves continued attenuating and weren't as high when it reached the other side of the world.

Here is a link with some info on that event, which were actually several explosions from Krakatoa.

www.drgeorgepc.com...

These days we have several possible scenarios which could result in waves higher than those that the explosions Krakatoa made back in 1883.

I am talking about "La Cumbre Vieja" volcano in the Canary islands, which at any moment, from today to 1,000 years from now, part of this volcano could break away, and cause a massive tsunami that will devastate parts of the eastern seaboard in the U.S. and other countries, it will also erase life from any islands on it's way to the U.S.

There is also some overdue underwater earthquakes in the Pacific and the Atlantic, close to the U.S. which would also cause a lot of damage to the U.S. as well as South America, Central America and islands in both oceans.

I am really not looking forward to something like this to happen.

Ok, back to the topic, and I apologize for going off tangent.

We will see in the not so distant future water wars.

I believe that in order to make sure that we don't run out of water, several countries around the world should unite and put to good use some of the icebergs that we can still find at the poles, before global warming melts them all, or most of them.

Anyways, there should be an international pact to build huge watertanks around the world and melt as much water from icebergs as is possible in those tanks. Of course this would take cooperation from most countries in the world, as well as billions of dollars. Even then it would take years for a plan like this one to work, and btw imo this plan shouldn't be placed on the hands of one country alone like some people like to do.

Anyways, with the way things are going now, i doubt this would ever happen anytime soon.

[edit on 19-3-2006 by Muaddib]