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[edit] A few questions
- Firstly I've been looking at my Encarta atlas and it seems to me that there wouldn't really be that much extra land in the Mediterranean if the sea level was dropped by 200 meters. I mean it would create some large tracks of new land, but that Vast majority of the Water would still be there (because most of the sea is far deeper that 200 m). Also, wouldn't the new ground be just Salt-logged Sand? Not very usable for anything really.
- Secondly if there were a large loss of water from the Med, wouldn't that extra water end up in the rest of the world's oceans? Meaning that the rest of the world would have global flooding, so the actual land area gained would be zero?
- Oh and thirdly, wouldn't this have terrible consequences for all the coastal cities on the Med, they would all be left high and dry, no? (so it's good bye to all ports and fishing industries, until new ones could be built). Not to mention the grave Environmental consequences. --Hibernian 04:53, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- You are quite correct in your observations. This vision was a short sighted one. Too focused on the idealist solution to see the many inherant flaws. Anachronos 07:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- it is estimated that it would´ve created new land the size of France and Belgium together.--Tresckow 03:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Actually, the plan was to put three massive lakes in african deserts to make up for the water, not pumping all of it into the other oceans. >-{ Brandonrush }-<
- Whether the land gained in the Med is lost elsewhere in the world depends on several factors, including the slopes along the shores. I guess the atmosphere would be drier (on average), since less water would be evaporating from the Med – which means that with other factors equal the total land area would be a net loss. —Tamfang (talk) 19:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] references
Gispen, Kees 1943- "Das Atlantropa-Projekt--Die Geschichte einer gescheiterten Vision: Hermann Sorgel und die Absenkung des Mittelmeers (review)" Technology and Culture - Volume 42, Number 3, July 2001, pp. 596-598 Title: The Atlantropa project - History of a failed vision: Hermann Sorgel and the draining of the Mediterranean Author(s): Murphy DT Source: ISIS 91 (3): 626-627 SEP 2000 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stone (talk • contribs) 19:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC).
And Venice was to be kept with water to preserve it's cultural importance. A huge damn would be built around Venice just over the horizon to make it look like it was still a sea. That way Venice would still have it's canals. This huge of a project was projected to end unemployement for a century, but climatologists on the History Channel said it would have induced a Day after Tommorow-like ice-age because of disruption of the Atlantic gulf stream. (User:Hibbidyhai) —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 07:29, August 21, 2007 (UTC).
[edit] ancient precedent
Is it worth mentioning in the article that Gibraltar was effectively "dammed" by the lowering of sea level during the Ice Ages? —Tamfang (talk) 19:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
