Chapter 767 Controlling Disaster Weather

"Mr. Dong Chen, the ocean is not only the cradle of life on earth, it is also the central air conditioner of life on earth. Without it, there would never be the suitable temperature we have now."

"The ocean carries 90% of the heat in the earth system, and water is the compound with the largest specific heat capacity in nature. The ocean can absorb a large amount of heat without causing large temperature changes."

"The most important role of the ocean on climate is to regulate the climate through ocean currents. The entire planetary scale ocean current circulation is the "thermohaline circulation," which is a very important system."

"The important power sources of this system are salinity and temperature. Only when there is a difference can seawater flow, carry energy, and carry heat to cold places, so that cold places will not be too cold to live in. And then in turn, it keeps the hot places from getting too hot, which is especially true in the cold environments of the Arctic and Antarctic."

"However, due to climate warming, the icebergs full of fresh water in the North and South Poles are melting continuously, causing the transport speed of this heat to continue to slow down or even stop..."

Through the first few words of conversation with Dong Chen, Lanino knew that he could no longer treat Dong Chen as an ordinary capitalist.

Those professional terms and detailed data that capitalists don't want to hear are not a problem here for Dong Chen. He can completely understand it, and he can also professionally find faults for himself. And the more detailed he says, the more likely the project will be rejected. The greater the chance of Dong Chen's support, so Lanino's words were also very open.

He opened various data comparison charts in the computer and showed them to Dong Chen, hoping that Dong Chen could understand the seriousness of this as much as possible.

The end of the world is really no joke.

"...Through the data from our fieldwork, we have discovered a number of serious situations caused by the melting of icebergs."

"For example, the melting of the Laurentine Ice Sheet and the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in the northern North Atlantic. The fresh water caused by their melting ice floats in the northern North Atlantic, weakening the formation of deep water bottom water in the northern North Atlantic and reducing the natural flow of warm water. The transport from south to north thus cools the climate in parts of Europe and North America."

"Under such circumstances, places that really need to be cold can't get cold, and places that don't need to be so cold are getting even colder. This is the strange and extreme weather that appears after the overall climate warms."

"This kind of cooling has been around for a long time, but it has slowly intensified since human activities began. Especially after humans entered the industrial age, the cooling rate is getting faster and faster."

"This situation has been quite obvious to people last year. Not only did they feel that the weather was too cold and winter entered too early, but the winter was also much colder than before. This caused more deaths in the United States due to cold weather last winter. The number of people is more than double last year.”

"This is only the situation in the United States and the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, this situation occurs all over the world, and it is getting more and more serious. We all have detailed data..."

Continuously looking at the data provided by Lanino, Dong Chen also remembered that he had obtained some information.

The density of seawater is mainly controlled by temperature and salinity. Generally speaking, the colder and saltier the water, the greater the density. On the contrary, the warmer and fresher the seawater, the smaller the density. The importance of the polar glaciers is self-evident.

The thermohaline circulation of the ocean is the zonal circulation driven by the different temperature and salinity distributions of seawater.

Because the water in the North Atlantic is close to the North Pole at high latitudes, it is colder and relatively salty. Therefore, the water in this area will sink, then flow to lower latitudes and rise to the sea surface, and finally return to the north through surface circulation. Atlantic.

Through this process, the thermohaline circulation transports excess heat from low latitudes to high latitudes, so it plays a great role in maintaining the global heat balance.

When global warming occurs, many glaciers in the Arctic will melt and a large amount of fresh water will be input into the northern Atlantic Ocean. This will cause the density of local seawater to decrease and prevent it from sinking into the deep sea. As a result, the thermohaline circulation will slow down or stop.

The result is that the global heat balance is broken and high latitudes become very cold.

Dong Chen noticed this situation when he was dealing with the "bloody" virus incident. At that time, the temperature in the United States was already much colder than the same period in previous years, which also attracted some of his attention to climate issues. Many crisis situations have actually started a long time ago, and it is not surprising that they all go hand in hand.

Dong Chen pursed his lips and tapped the table, frowning from time to time and flipping through Lanino's computer page to look at the data. After listening to Lanino's words, he looked up at him and asked, "I have a general understanding of the situation. , do you have any solutions? You want me to fund you with more than just scientific research funds, right?"

"Yes, we have solutions, but because of financial problems, they are only theoretical solutions now," said Lañino, who was a little embarrassed.

"It is precisely because of this that we have been rejected many times in a row."

"So, you only thought of me after being rejected many times?" Dong Chen joked with a smile.

"Uh...no, Mr. Dong Chen, you are actually the most important person in our plan and the one most likely to fund us, but we don't usually see you..."

"..."

Dong Chen thought for a moment that what he said was correct, so he left the page and said directly, "Then let's talk about your "theoretical" solution."

"Okay, Mr. Dong Chen," Lanino clicked on a folder again, then entered the password to open it completely and showed it to Dong Chen, "Our solution is like this..."

The reason why artificial influence on the earth's climate can be achieved under certain circumstances is because there is huge energy and various unstable factors in the atmosphere.

If we master the changing patterns of these unstable factors, and under certain favorable opportunities and conditions, use artificial catalysis and other technical means to influence the physical processes in the atmosphere in a local area, and use less energy to "induced" them, we can Huge energy conversions will occur, causing the weather to develop in the direction people expect.

This is also the principle behind how people implement artificial rainfall now. However, compared with their plans, artificial rainfall seems too childish.

Their design is to control the weather by directly changing the atmospheric temperature and humidity in local areas, and it does so from space. The methods include placing chemical catalysts, using laser irradiation, etc.

However, there is no actual precise design in the plan, only rough principles and general implementation methods, and... there is no guarantee that it is 100% feasible.

After seeing these things, those people who are willing to pay for it will be damned.