KOZHIKODE: Can the sea-level rise due to global warming be prevented by placing a series of stainless steel floats in the sea? If you say ‘no’, Dr Vedagiri Ganesan, a retired professor of Bharathiar University, would not agree.Dr Ganesan has submitted a proposal to the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Goa, to save the earth from the impending sea level rise by floating stainless steel pipes, projecting 3 metre above and 3 metre below the water surface. According to Dr Ganesan, the major cause of melting of ice in the Polar region is the high temperature of the sea-surface. Due to the surface tension, heat from the sea water does not get transferred to the air. At the same time, the surface tension does not allow the low-temperature at the atmosphere of Polar regions to cool the sea water. As a result, the high temperature of the sea water melts the ice, which in turn, rises the sea-level. So, by diffusing the sea surface temperature near the Polar regions, the Polar-melt can be prevented. According to the proposal (Reversal of Polar Ice Melt, sea level rise, coastal submergence, CO2 release and global warming), the steel floats will function as an effective Thermal Conduction Facilitation Interface System (TCFIS) and facilitate heat transfer from different layers of the sea to the air.Scientists observe that the volume of ocean water is fast increasing due to Polar-melt, large quantum of annual precipitation over the ocean and the delivery of water and debris from the rivers. The 35,000 glaciers in the Himalayas would melt in five years, causing flood in Kochi, Mumbai and other coastal areas in the country, said Dr Ganesan. Sea has slowly been swallowing the land area for the past 14 years, said Dr Ganesan. While the total sea area was 71 per cent of the total area of the earth in 1995, it is 74 per cent in 2009.The Polar-melt releases enormous volume of water into the oceans, which causes sea-level rise, coastal erosion and coastal submergence.
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