This is encouraging about the oceans: The World's Largest Sea Grass Project proves you can actually restore the oceans.
Off the coast of Virginia, where seagrasses disappeared nearly a century ago, a groundbreaking experiment is bringing these climate change fighters back to life. Now, the bays are like a “beautiful underwater prairie,” and scientists are pointing to the effort as a blueprint for restoring and maintaining healthy ecosystems throughout the world’s oceans.
Italy is having success reducing the shrinkage of snowmelt on a glacier by 70%. How you ask? White reflective cloth which is "tucked" into the glacier late in spring by conservationists.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57735433
There are a few discussions regarding flooding and coastal flooding, but for the purpose of keeping climate change projections/predictions in one place, I am posting this here:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/study-projects-a-surge-in-coastal-flooding-starting-in-2030s
In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change.
It mentions the US, but this will affect all coastal towns and cities all over the world.
This might explain why a few of us feel the current climate change model projections for rising sea levels and flooding have been too conservative.
I know that one of my favorite places I have visited (from my Deep South roots/home) is the Chesapeake Bay area. I read Misty of Chincoteague as a young girl and was deeply touched by it like so many. One of my bucket list items was to visit Assateague and see the ponies! I was blessed to be able to do that in 2015. It saddens me to see that .... https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/01/05/overall-chesapeake-bay-health-remains-at-d-grade-state-of-the-bay-report-says/
Of course the childhood summers staying with my Grandmother in the Low Country were marvels of the estuaries and the smell of pluff mud strikes a deep cord in me.
@jeanne-mayell I shed a tear reading your amazing report of restoration with the sea grass programs!!! These bays,estuaries are the nurseries for the beginnings of all sea life, numerous birds and others . Tehy also serve as a canary in the mines to warn of coming changes. To know that we have the knowledge and power to restore them is an answered prayer for me!
@lovendures and @polarberry Wondering if the could put that cloth all over Antarctica and Greenland.
I know they have been thinking about using something similar with certain aerosols in the atmosphere, but there is some hesitancy in doing it because Scientists are not sure how dangerous it would be. I can remember reading China either experimented with it already or were thinking of doing it.
@luminous In 2007 Bill Gates funded projects that would explore possible climate solutions by using geo-engineering. There is a project at Harvard that is jointly funded by Gates and Harvard that is gathering data on the interaction of aerosols with the atmosphere to determine how aerosols might work. They are using a chalky dust-like substance and experimenting flying a weather balloon over a small area over the Arctic.
They are not actually going to launch anything large scale, because if they did so, they could do major damage to our already chaotic weather system. You can read about their project in Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gates-block-sun/
@luminous In 2007 Bill Gates funded projects that would explore possible climate solutions by using geo-engineering. There is a project at Harvard that is jointly funded by Gates and Harvard that is gathering data on the interaction of aerosols with the atmosphere to determine how aerosols might work. They are using a chalky dust-like substance and experimenting flying a weather balloon over a small area over the Arctic.
They are not actually going to launch anything large scale, because if they did so, they could do major damage to our already chaotic weather system. You can read about their project in Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gates-block-sun/
Thanks @jeanne-mayell, I will have a read.