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A straight to the point report for
simplified studying and actioning.


By Hursh Saha
- 2008 -




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Table of Contents

1. The current problem 3

2. What needs to be done 4

3. Where we must start 5

4. Some practical solutions to work with 6

5. Conclusion 14

6. Authors finishing notes 15

7. Bibliography 16




















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1. The current problem

1.1 Getting straight to the point

Climate change is occurring in several places around the world resulting in
more natural disasters and extreme weather conditions.

An abundance of evidence exists throughout the public domain of information
that the problem is caused (or at least contributed to) by the past and
current carbon emissions of man.

Whether or not the problem really is due to mankinds carbon emissions,
nature, or a combination of the two - something must to be done as soon as
possible or we may risk losing even more precious resources, wealth and, of
course, people.
























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2. What needs to be done

At home and at work (or by people in buildings)

Use less energy and/or more renewable forms of it

Have as many energy systems which are as efficient as possible

Have better insulation of buildings to reduce wasted heat

When commuting in between home and work

Travel less or with less weight

Have more fuel-efficient vehicles

Have vehicles which run on alternative renewable fuels such as solar
and wind energy

In our environment, to reverse all the damage

Decrease current sea level rises to avoid the flooding of lowlands

Decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, perhaps,
by planting more trees.

Add more water and rainfall to places which have more or less
become dry and turned into deserts, such as parts of northern
China, Australia and Africa.

Reduce water and rainfall in places that have more or less become
too cold or wet.










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3. Where we must start

By first recognising the sheer reality of the situation

The problem clearly exists and plenty of evidence, especially from recent
years, shows that things are only going to get worse in the near future.

Human beings are definitely capable of solving it, or at least reducing it.
However, the sheer reality is that most of them only work on incentives,
whether their only home is in danger or not. Thus, if any proposed method
for dealing with climate change is to survive beyond the typical published
article, educational textbook or documentary, it will need to have real
incentives for people to carry them out with. Simply claiming that what we
do today will save the future or provide a better world for our children is
not enough especially when the vast majority of people have their own
lives to attend to and are skeptical in believing that the problem even exists
simply because they are not feeling it yet. Proof of this exists in the countless
methods and inventions proposed for dealing with climate change in the past
which have been completely or almost completely ignored by people in their
everyday lives, because carrying them out gives them no direct or
instantaneous benefit. Yet, most of us will go to extreme lengths to just
make a few dollars, save up for a new car or purchase our first house.

What can we do about this?

Instead of giving up or just hoping for the best, or even worse: continuing to
kid ourselves while we know the situation is continually getting worse; we
can approach climate change as an opportunity to change for the better
and in doing so, to make a big profit out of it! In other words, just as human
greed and corruption has contributed to the problem the two can be used to
solve it. All that is needed is to 'reverse' it by having economic and monetary
incentives for doing good, and in doing so, to turn this curse of mankind
into a blessing.












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4. Some practical solutions to work with

4.1 Specifically for the Western World

On a small scale

For starters, both residential and commercial buildings can:

In sunny locations have advanced solar panels on top. It is
posed by the author that thick and clear greenhouse type layers
are put on top to trap in more sunlight for constant absorption.

In windy locations have miniature wind turbines on top

In wet locations have a new invention posed by the author
called Water Pipe Dynamos, which consist of implanting a small
dynamo in the water pipes which leave a house (preferably for
storm water) to generate extra electricity whenever it rains.

The above three concepts may not be able to supply all the electricity a
building needs but will nevertheless contribute to it. The building will
still be connected to the common grid and will only use power from it
when there is none available from the local generators. This makes it
so the local generators and the common grid become a backup to each
other in times of trouble. Batteries can be installed to store generated
energy for later use. As a result, savings are made on electricity
expenses and the environment benefits from more energy generated
from renewable sources.

Buildings with Water Pipe Dynamos on them will also be worth more
than those without, which means instant capital gains for those who
own property. Businesses in them will have better public relations. In
fact, the savings in electricity expenses will help pay for the generators
over time and could even be incorporated into a scheme where people
are loaned the money to have them installed and then pay it back
through their electricity savings.

Lastly, it is posed by the author that houses using the above
technology be nicknamed Hybrid Houses.

Simple energy saving incentives posed by the author, which take very
little effort to remember and constantly conduct (and, therefore, are
more likely to actually work and survive) are:

Have thick blankets over all hot water cylinders
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Install fluorescent instead of incandescent light bulbs

Turn appliances off at night and when not in use

Wear more clothes and shut both windows and doors when too
cold, and consume more fluids and open windows and doors
when too hot.

On a large scale

If it is not practical to implement the Water Pipe Dynamo invention
described above on all or most buildings then they can be done so on
only large (and especially tall) buildings where the benefits of
implementation are likely to hugely outweigh the costs. However, for
the remaining buildings and houses, local councils can simply
implement the water pipe dynamos in underground sewers and drains
which collect the accumulated waste water and storm water from all
those buildings in the local area. The costs of implementation will again
be covered by savings made on the electricity generated, which will all
go to the local councils in this case. Once more, it will also be better for
the environment with more energy being generated from renewable
sources.




















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4.2 Specifically for the Eastern World

In the East where the majority of the population still work on the land
and where technology and modern equipment may not be so readily
available, there is a way for families and tribes of people to do more
than their part for the environment and thrive at the same time. The
invention posed by the author for this is described below.

What the East can do is create a greenhouse type of structure for
cheap, which will give them plenty in return. All they have to do is go
to the coast (which many of them will live near anyway) and dig up a
trench that leads into a small land depression (which can also be dug
out if it does not exist). Naturally, these small land depressions will
then flood with seawater. Once done the local inhabitants can create a
small greenhouse over the land depression out of thick and clear
sheets of material (or glass if available) in order to trap sunlight and
heat up the seawater flooding the land depression. It will eventually
evaporate to the ceiling of the greenhouse, condense and slide back
down it as fresh drinkable water that can be consumed. The salt left
over can also be consumed or collected and sold. Agricultural
vegetation that can feed off seawater, such as mangroves, can be
planted around the land depression to give food to the people.

In time, further trenches can be dug out from the land depressions for
the construction of more greenhouses in other land depressions. Land
immediately surrounding these small artificial ponds (or lakes) with
greenhouses with could be dug out to store the fresh water generated
from them and create freshwater ponds (or lakes) in the process. In
addition, vegetation (whether agricultural or not) can also be grown
around them.

Charity groups, environmental groups, students (of the relevant fields)
and volunteers can all donate their time and effort to the Third World
to help get this project going, especially when it comes to installing the
needed infrastructure. They can further help by installing Water Pipe
Dynamos (as discussed above) in them to generate electricity for those
in the Third World who seem to be trapped in the Agrarian Age and
advance them into the 21
st
Century! All in all, this project could help to
give them food, fresh water, salt, pools of sea and fresh water, and
even electricity.

Of course, the environment will benefit in all this and not only from
those in the East generating electricity from a renewable source but
also from the creation of vegetation (around the artificial pools of
water), which will help to absorb the excess carbon dioxide in our
atmosphere. In addition, seawater will be displaced from our rising
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seas and converted into fresh drinkable water, effectively helping solve
two large problems at once. Lastly, if these small greenhouses and
pools of water were made to spread across landscapes they would help
to cool them down in the process.

The initiatives described above may seem overwhelmingly small in
order to make any real difference globally but think about how many
there are in the East who could implement it. Just as the world has
been polluted with carbon from everyone in the West having a motor
vehicle it can effectively be unpolluted by many more in the East
implementing this new method.



































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4.3 For the barren deserts of both The East & West

In this case, the author poses using an old concept with a new form of
application. As we know, canals have been created many times in the
past to transport water from one place to another. The author poses,
for both Eastern and Western countries with significant areas of desert,
to construct canals from the coast leading into sizable land depressions
within their deserts that go below sea level. This will flood them with
seawater creating artificial inland lakes and seas in the process. As a
result, seawater will be displaced from the worlds rising seas and the
seawater flooding the land depressions will help to greenify their dry
surroundings, which will not only generate wood but act as a carbon
sink to further help solve climate change. The surrounding land, which
could be warming up, will also be cooled down. In time, these desert
coasts could become habitable and perhaps colonised to help spread
our expanding world population. In fact, the creation of land with new
vegetation and bodies of water will help to fund this project in the first
place through both the acquiring of carbon credits to on-sell and the
likely capital gains in the value of the land.

Bear in mind that the above paragraph provides a method to
dramatically help solve climate change which is, without doubt, one of
the greatest challenges facing mankind in the 21
st
century. The
fundamental problem that appears to cause climate change is the
presence of excess carbon in our atmosphere. As a result, a
greenhouse effect occurs, the world warms up, polar ice caps melt, sea
levels rise and weather changes in various ways in numerous places.
How else could we so easily, quickly, cost-effectively and practically
reverse all this damage that has been done? If the seas are rising what
can we do with all the 'excess' seawater before it floods lowlands and
ends up killing potentially millions of people? We could try to re-freeze
it, store it some place away from the seas, or perhaps even launch it
into space? Obviously, none of these are practical but it is practical to
use the excess seawater to flood an uninhabited area that is already
dry and desolate, and, therefore, which is in desperate need of the
nourishment. On the other hand, what else could be done to practically
filter our air of its current excess carbon apart from creating new
vegetation to naturally take care it?

Further benefits of this method include:

The creation of economic activity resulting in more wealth and
jobs

More coastal property for not only on-selling and building on but
also for fishing, water sports and tourism
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Development that is great for both economies and the
environment, leading to greater sustainable development
(economic production and consumption offset by favourable
activities toward the environment of similar or greater
magnitudes). In fact, this method may have the potential to
justify the refining and burning of oil, especially in the Middle
East which generates a lot of the worlds oil and also has the
deserts that can be utilised under this method.

Large quantities of soil is a useful by-product from carving out
the canals that can be put to other uses or on-sold for a profit. If
it cannot be used in these ways it can always be used to create
hills around these new bodies of water to make them even more
attractive to potential developers and settlers.

The potential to cost-effectively construct the canals through only
carving them into the soil without lining their insides with
concrete. As added benefits: the seawater will naturally nourish
the land surrounding the canal and the canal itself can easily be
branched out and expanded across deserts. This will also help to
control the erosion of the canal's sides from seawater flowing
through it.

The potential to add hydroelectric damns to the ends of the
canals, where they enter land depressions, in order to generate
electricity for the first settlements, to export to neighbouring
ones, or even to convert seawater into drinkable water through
desalination.

Human activity in what is usually unchartered and scarcely
populated areas giving opportunity for further scientific research
and discovery into those areas such as from the testing for oil,
gas and ore reserves.

National governments will have an incentive to conduct this
'economically and environmentally-friendly' action not only because of
the above but also because of how it will help their overall political
positions in the world race for committing to the Kyoto Protocol and
doing something good for the long term existence of humanity. It is no
doubt that the governments of the Middle East, northern Africa,
northern China and Australia will stand to significantly gain from
employing this model.

Of course, not all deserts near coasts can be brought to life in this way
as there are exceptions in the form of reserves, private ownership,
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historic land claims and disputed territory. To add to this, there are
also desert areas near coasts which may be unable to experience such
a dramatic change to their delicately-balanced ecosystems. However,
all other desert areas are still available with huge potential for
enrichment.

Ways for governments to generate the initial costs (apart from what
has already been mentioned) include:

Selling or leasing the desert land in advance to private parties
who will have the incentive to purchase it knowing the probable
capital gains it will have once converted from dry desert into
beautiful green and blue

Contracting the private sector to undertake such projects in
exchange for a percentage of the overall economic returns and to
make their marks on these new lands before their competitors
do.

Further points to take note of:

Land depressions (going below sea level in desert terrains) that
are too far inland with obstacles on the way can still have water
transported to them through underground tubes or any
appropriate infrastructure that can be built or which may already
exist in the area underutilised. In fact, large scale projects that
already involve the construction of canals could incorporate this
model to further be profited from and made worthwhile. An
example would be the large canals currently being constructed in
China to transport water from its wet areas in the south to its dry
ones in the north.

Examples of supplies of large earthworks machines required for
such a project are: Komatsu, Caterpillar, Tonka, and BHP Billiton
in Australia. In fact, they can also be used for expanding existing
land depressions that are not large enough or creating new land
depressions (going below sea level) in coastal desert areas that
lack them.

Major rivers leading from high altitudes out to sea can be
branched off to lead straight into desert land depressions instead
of having to construct canals from scratch. However, care would
be needed to make sure these rivers are not drained or that their
local ecosystems are not disturbed.

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Erosion of the land from seawater running through the canals (as
discussed earlier) can further be avoided through installing
floodgates, which will also help to keep out dangerous sea
creatures and help with fishing.

The greenification of the surrounds of the new bodies of water
can be improved through the introduction of fertiliser and
compost (or even natural waste from the local communities).

Vadose zones below the desert surface can be avoided during
canal construction through prior geotechnical analysis.



































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5. Conclusion

To summarise and conclude, this report demonstrates innovative methods
with huge benefit to both the environment and our economies. Within it lies a
potential solution to climate change: one of mankinds greatest current
challenges, which has implications for the whole planet. Even if the methods
described here did not solve the problem completely they would certainly
contribute to solving it. With a variety of ways to initiate and profit off these
initiatives coupled with their probable benefits for people in both the East and
West make them quite appealing overall. Considering that they may only
involve a small step forward for small communities of people all over the
globe, they could, in effect, be one giant leap forward for all of mankind!
Reasons like these remind us that they are something which should definitely
be considered and given serious thought to for the good of all life on planet
earth in the both the present and foreseeable future.























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6. Authors finishing notes

Hello! How are things? I am Hursh Saha, author of this report, which, in
some ways, I have worked on since the year 2000. The solution for
climate change has become an ultimate life goal and dream for me
throughout the years. I just hope it does not always remain as that.

I would like to finish off by dedicating this report to all the people of the
world, including future generations. I believe that, as human beings, we
are all in this together. I may have written this report by myself but it is
up to us to carry it out for the good of all of humanity. In writing this
report, I know that I have drawn on numerous sources of information in
order to put it together. To be honest, I have not kept a complete record
of every single source I have used. I do remember some of them, and
have made a bibliography out of them, but the entire lot I cannot
completely recall. They may have come from a website I read not long
back, a person I spoke to sometime in the past, material I learned back at
school or university, or a book I skimmed through years ago. This is one
of the reasons for writing this finishing note: to dedicate this report to
everyone and acknowledge all potential places and people from where I
may have gathered information which I used to create this report with, of
which I am truly grateful for.

Thank you to you all for reading this report and All the Best for All to
come!



By Hursh Saha
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7. Bibliography

1. http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~skot/bigschemes/lake_eyre/index.hml -
material from this website has been used with permission.

2. Jain, R. K. (2005). Geography Book 6 (For ICSE Schools). Ratna Sagar P.
Ltd.: Delhi.

3. Various www.Google.com searches of Lake Eyre, major rivers of Australia
and related geographical terms. Complete records not kept.