How can we stop rising tides from flooding costal cities?

Question

I met someone who told me this idea: if we drill giant holes into the earth, the water would drain into the earth's crust and this would stop rising water from destroying costal cities.
You would have to drill in shallow water.
Does anyone have an opinion on this?

Drill in the continental shelf

Answer 1

Wouldn't work! The earth is about 3/4 water. Drilling man made holes will NOT stop tides! NO way - unless done on a global scale at extreme widths and depths!

So forget about it - drilling around coastly cities will not effect the ENTIRE ocean. It's ridiculous.

Answer 2

You drill until you hit the water table. The the water rises up through the giant holes and floods the coastal cities.

Answer 3

That's stupid. Why waste the money? Make corporations take responsibility for their actions and reduce their CO2 emissions, switch to clean-burning renewable fuel sources, and plant new vegetation to deal with the excess CO2. That would stop the globe from warming further and as the plants converted the CO2 into oxygen, global temperatures will hopefully regulate and return to "normal". The literal only other option is to wait for the human race to destruct the only place in the known universe that can sustain any sort of life, and then die out.

Answer 4

once you drill a hollow something takes position, it fills with water. numerous holes might want to reason the continental shelf to break off. causing an earthquake. If global warming would not end and each of the ice melts. If the undesirable storms do not kill us the earth will be coated with 2 hundred ft of water. the really survivors might want to be those contained in the extreme mountains in South u.s.. for sure, by then global warming might want to be stopped and the majority might want to be lifeless from floods and storms. the optimal mountains are in Pakistan, China, India, inspite of the indisputable fact that the down aspect they're all coated with snow. in the route of the equator the position you may want to easily live to tell the tale, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador! So the wealthy and in call for might want to in all likelihood be wondering about procuring land in Argentina earlier it is going sky extreme. No pun meant. really mountains on the equator have a danger of surviving.

Answer 5

You don't need holes to send water into the Earth's crust. Water is seeping in there all the time. When it gets down to a hot layer it gets shot out again as a steam from a volcano or in a hot vent.

The water isn't going to stay down there forever, it is always cycling around.

Answer 6

I think the Kyoto protocol had some chance of helping the flooding, like 7 years ago.

Its 65 degrees here in Boston on January 5th

I think in retrospect Bush will be blamed for not supporting efforts to help slow global warming.

Too late to do much about it. Maybe some more large stones to protect the rich folks houses on the shore.

Answer 7

That wouldnt stop the rising. The water is still going to rise, Global Warning. Duh. And if you want to drill a hole in the earth your going to have to drill it reallllllly deep. And still water will continue to rise. Unless of course we some how have another ice age and all the water freezes. But anyway, you think too much.

Answer 8

What happens when the hole fills up? We are not capable of building a hole that is big enough to lower sea level by any significant amount. So, the water would just pour in and yet the sea level wouldn't be affected.

Answer 9

It would be easier to build dams around the big coastal cities, thus saving all of the inner city minorities and allowing the rich white people on the outside to drown.

Answer 10

or we could stop global warming so the tides dont rise in the first place. i dont think drilling huge holes in the side of the earth is such a good idea.