The rise in water is far, far, far from the only concern due to global warming. Probably not even the main concern.
http://skepticalscience.com/global-warmi... has a nice list of the positive and negative (mostly negative) effects of global warming.
Aside from that, as others have pointed out, the empty oil wells don't have enough volume to hold much of the excess water in any case.
We dont have enough oil wells to make a difference, and actually a large proportion of sea level rise, over 30% comes from us pumping groundwater up out of the ground.
What might be possible is there are two areas, one in the Sahara and one in the center of Australia, where sea water could be sent and make inland seas.
Most of the ways to deal with rising sea levels in developed nations will (and do) evolve around either engineering structures (such as the dykes in The Netherlands) or mitigation strategies (such as building buffers from coastal areas).
All the oil pumped in history could fit comfortably into Lake Tahoe, so I doubt that the increase in sea level would fit in undersea oil well gaps.
Hi Jake There already full of water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_injec...
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we could grow more sponges in the sea ..... they would soak up the water
Been thought of:
http://ozideas.wikifoundry.com/thread/12...
I came up with an idea a few months ago when i was thinking about global warming, and i know the main concern is the rising ocean level. So the question to ask is not how to prevent this from happening by cutting down emissions, or pumping sulfur dioxide into the sky, but where to put the water instead.
So why not empty some of the water into the empty oil wells beneath the sea?
It was just an idea, but i didn't know if it would put the world off it's axis by mass shifts like some of the largest hydroelectric dams.
So could this work?
