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Absolutely not.

Apart from having devastating ecological effects, especially on marine life were large parts of the biome have their breeding cycles governed by tidal effects. (Not to mention the ecology of the inter-tidal zones around the globe which are also important food generating areas for humanity.) You would therefore be doing more harm than good for the world, humanity included. So there is a key point you need to understand.

Tides don't increase water levels around the planet instead what they do is redistribute whatever preexisting volume of water there is.

Take a glass - mark a line on it and fill it with water to that level. Now slowly tilt the glass from noneone side to the other. As you do this you will see the water level on one side of the glass rise above the line and drop below it on the opposite side. This is analogis to the effect the moons gravitational pull has on the Earths Oceans as it orbits.

Now take that glass and put in under a dripping tap. The water level will rise and continue to do so until you turn it off. Again tilting the glass slightly makes no difference one way of the other.

The Earths ocean levels are rising because global warming is causing the vast reserves of fresh water trapped on land in the Antarctic, Greenland and elsewhere to melt. This slowly but steadily adds to the volume of water in the oceans. Or if you wish humanity has left the tap dripping and until we bother to turn it off the oceans are going to keep rising in volume - regardless of whether the moon is there or not.

Absolutely not.

Apart from having devastating ecological effects, especially on marine life were large parts of the biome have their breeding cycles governed by tidal effects. (Not to mention the ecology of the inter-tidal zones around the globe which are also important food generating areas for humanity.) You would therefore be doing more harm than good for the world, humanity included. So there is a key point you need to understand.

Tides don't increase water levels around the planet instead what they do is redistribute whatever preexisting volume of water there is.

Take a glass - mark a line on it and fill it with water to that level. Now slowly tilt the glass from none side to the other. As you do this you will see the water level on one side of the glass rise above the line and drop below it on the opposite side. This is analogis to the effect the moons gravitational pull has on the Earths Oceans as it orbits.

Now take that glass and put in under a dripping tap. The water level will rise and continue to do so until you turn it off. Again tilting the glass slightly makes no difference one way of the other.

The Earths ocean levels are rising because global warming is causing the vast reserves of fresh water trapped on land in the Antarctic, Greenland and elsewhere melt. This slowly but steadily adds to the volume of water in the oceans. Or if you wish humanity has left the tap dripping and until we bother to turn it off the oceans are going to keep rising in volume.

Absolutely not.

Apart from having devastating ecological effects, especially on marine life were large parts of the biome have their breeding cycles governed by tidal effects. (Not to mention the ecology of the inter-tidal zones around the globe which are also important food generating areas for humanity.) You would therefore be doing more harm than good for the world, humanity included. So there is a key point you need to understand.

Tides don't increase water levels around the planet instead what they do is redistribute whatever preexisting volume of water there is.

Take a glass - mark a line on it and fill it with water to that level. Now slowly tilt the glass from one side to the other. As you do this you will see the water level on one side of the glass rise above the line and drop below it on the opposite side. This is analogis to the effect the moons gravitational pull has on the Earths Oceans as it orbits.

Now take that glass and put in under a dripping tap. The water level will rise and continue to do so until you turn it off. Again tilting the glass slightly makes no difference one way of the other.

The Earths ocean levels are rising because global warming is causing the vast reserves of fresh water trapped on land in the Antarctic, Greenland and elsewhere to melt. This slowly but steadily adds to the volume of water in the oceans. Or if you wish humanity has left the tap dripping and until we bother to turn it off the oceans are going to keep rising in volume - regardless of whether the moon is there or not.

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Absolutely not.

Apart from having devastating ecological effects, especially on marine life were large parts of the biome have their breeding cycles governed by tidal effects. (Not to mention the ecology of the inter-tidal zones around the globe which are also important food generating areas for humanity.) You would therefore be doing more harm than good for the world, humanity included. So there is a key point you need to understand.

Tides don't increase water levels around the planet instead what they do is redistribute whatever preexisting volume of water there is.

Take a glass - mark a line on it and fill it with water to that level. Now slowly tilt the glass from none side to the other. As you do this you will see the water level on one side of the glass rise above the line and drop below it on the opposite side. This is analogis to the effect the moons gravitational pull has on the Earths Oceans as it orbits.

Now take that glass and put in under a dripping tap. The water level will rise and continue to do so until you turn it off. Again tilting the glass slightly makes no difference one way of the other.

The Earths ocean levels are rising because global warming is causing the vast reserves of fresh water trapped on land in the Antarctic, Greenland and elsewhere melt. This slowly but steadily adds to the volume of water in the oceans. Or if you wish humanity has left the tap dripping and until we bother to turn it off the oceans are going to keep rising in volume.