CommentRe: The scientists got it wrong... (Score 0)204
Keep in mind desalination, you are sucking water out of the sea and putting inland. Altering the landscape and the albedo, cooling that region and absorbing carbon dioxide. Now just using renewable energy for desalination from the sea, which is nothing but pumping the water inland (reverse osmosis filtration at depth) to a suitable holding tank at altitude so gravity takes it to the location where it is actually required, you can very efficiently use surplus energy. Storing that energy as fresh water to be used.
So yeah, needs lots and lots and lots of desalination to cool the worlds coastal deserts and thus cool the planet, absorb lots of carbon dioxide and provide lots of food, do it smart and it generates a profit.
As for rice, I would lean to large scale hydroponics for it's production, the rice contained within an enclosed system to preserve the water as much as possible. It can readily be done, it is a choice. Hydroponics, thought the plants float on the water in floating grow beds, actually uses far less water that current methods and is really quite a simple design. In fact generate two crops per season instead of one.
Of course we know what they actually prefer, what ever makes THEM money and screw the rest of us, chaotic greed is making all the actual decisions. Whilst empty suits in government waffle bullshit about doing something but actually doing nothing but serving what ever short term greed got them elected.
When sea level rise starts taking the under waterfront properties of the rich and greedy, then we will see some real action and not before. First thing they will do, how to shift the insurance cost from their underewaterfront properties onto the poor.