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Chapter 767 Controlling Disaster Weather
"Mr. Dong Chen, the ocean is not only the cradle of life on earth, but also the central air conditioner for life on earth. Without it, the temperature we have is absolutely not as suitable as we are 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."

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

"The important power source of this system is salinity and temperature. Only when there is a difference, sea water will flow, energy will be transported, and heat will be transported to cold places, so that cold places will not be too cold to live in. And then in reverse, so that the hot place is not too hot, and the cold environment in the north and south poles is particularly prominent."

"However, due to the warming of the climate, the freshwater-filled icebergs in the north and south poles continue to melt, causing the speed of this heat transfer to slow down, or even stop..."

Through the conversation with Dong Chen in the first few words, Lanino knew that Dong Chen could not be treated as an ordinary capitalist.

Those professional terms and detailed data that capitalists don’t want to hear are not a problem for Dong Chen. He can understand it completely, and he can find faults for himself professionally. Moreover, the more detailed he says, the more likely the project will be rejected. The higher the chance of Dong Chen's support, the more La Niño is open to what he said.

He opened various data comparison charts in the computer to show 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 found a large number of severe cases due to melting icebergs."

"For example, the melting of the Laurentian Ice Sheet and the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in the northern North Atlantic Ocean, the fresh water caused by their melting ice floats in the northern North Atlantic Ocean, which weakens the formation of deep bottom water in the northern North Atlantic Ocean, and reduces the natural warm water. South-to-north transport, thus cooling parts of Europe and North America."

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

"This kind of cooling has existed for a long time, but it has gradually intensified since the beginning of human activities, especially after humans entered the industrial age, the speed of this cooling is getting faster and faster."

"This situation was already quite obvious last year. Not only did it feel that the weather was too cold and entered winter too early, but also the winter was much colder than before, which made the deaths caused by the cold weather in the United States last winter The number is more than double what it was last year."

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

Constantly looking at the data provided by La Niño, Dong Chen also remembered some information from his own side.

The density of seawater is mainly controlled by temperature and salinity. Generally speaking, the colder and saltier the water, the denser it is. Conversely, the warmer and thinner the seawater, the lower the density. The importance of polar glaciers is self-evident.

The thermohaline circulation in the ocean is precisely the zonal circulation driven by the temperature and salinity distribution of seawater.

The water in the North Atlantic region is colder and relatively salty because it is close to the North Pole in the high latitudes, so the water in this place sinks, then flows to the lower latitudes and rises to the sea surface, and finally returns to the North through the surface circulation. Atlantic.

Through this process, the thermohaline circulation will transport excess heat from low-latitude regions to high-latitude regions, so it plays a great role in maintaining the global heat balance.

When global warming occurs, glaciers in many Arctic regions will melt, and a large amount of fresh water will be imported into the northern Atlantic Ocean. This will reduce the density of local sea water and prevent it from sinking into the deep sea, so the thermohaline circulation will slow down or stop.

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

Dong Chen noticed this situation when he was dealing with the "bloodbath" virus incident. At that time, the temperature in the United States was already much colder than that of the same period in previous years, and he also drew some of his attention to the climate issue. There are many crisis situations that have already begun, and it is not surprising that they go hand in hand.

Dong Chen pursed his lips and tapped on the table, frowning from time to time, flipping through La Nino's computer page to look at the data, and after listening to La Nino finished speaking, he looked up at him and asked, "I have a general understanding of the situation. , so do you have any solution? You want me to fund you more than just scientific research funds?"

"Yes, we have solutions, but because of funding issues, they are only theoretical solutions at the moment," said Lanino, a little embarrassed.

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

"So, you guys only remembered me after being rejected many times?" Dong Chen teased with a smile.

"Uh...not really, Mr. Dong Chen, you are actually the most important person in our plan, and the one who is most likely to support us, but we don't usually see you..."

"........."

Dong Chen thought for a while that there was nothing wrong with what he said, so he turned over this page and said directly, "Then let's talk about your "theoretical" solution."

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

The reason why artificially affecting the earth's climate can be realized under certain circumstances is because there are huge energy and various unstable factors in the atmosphere.

If we grasp the changing laws of these unstable factors, and under certain favorable opportunities and conditions, we can exert influence on the physical processes in the atmosphere in a local area through technical means such as artificial catalysis, and "induce" them with less energy. A huge energy shift takes place, making the weather go the way people expect it to.

This is also the principle that people implement artificial rainfall now, but compared with their plans, artificial rainfall seems too childish.

Their design achieves the purpose of controlling the weather by directly changing the atmospheric temperature and humidity in local areas, and they do it from space. The means include putting in chemical catalysts and using laser irradiation.

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

After reading these things, those people are willing to pay for it.

(End of this chapter)