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What a fascinating read! Thank you for sharing this article.
They’re going to put a white tarp on it, right?
Maybe read the article
Was going to edit my comment after reading it, but goodness me, they never get to the point.
Sounds like you still didn’t read it
Sounds like you can’t read.
Lol
While this would certainly help the glacier from breaking apart, the effort required would be imense and a geotechnical nightmare. Building dikes above ground is tough enough as is.
On top of that we are warming so quickly. I don’t see how this would stop the sheet from melting from air temperature/solar radiation
I’d imagine the water makes in melt a lot quicker.
On a cold day at like 4c or in your fridge. Put a large ice cube on something insulating and put a similar ice cube in a large bucket of water.
It’s why if you go through the ice into the water you should roll around in the snow. The most important thing is to be dry.
In the realm of crazy ideas, why not flood parts of the Sahara? Build a canal from the closest sea and just let it drain into there. There are also areas in Australia that were one great lakes that could also have a canal or two built to them from the ocean and flooded. Given the temperature in those places, it might make enough condensation to rejuvenate those and surrounding areas with the precipitation.
if the 500 million was spent putting up wind turbines and solar panels you’d save more gkaciers melting overall and make a profit.
I sometimes wonder if we should improve the world. Not just damage limitation but actually increasing biodiversity.
Irrigate marginal lands for forests. Or building huge offshore underwater platforms where coral can grow. Either in-between island chains, near them or just out in the ocean.
There was some work done on Iron fertilization in the ocean that seemed interesting.
