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These schemes are all insane. Just imagine the damage done to the environment by: 1) Tens of millions of fans floating in the ocean and blowing air on the ice.
by nonbel 10y ago
These schemes are all insane. Just imagine the damage done to the environment by:
1) Tens of millions of fans floating in the ocean and blowing air on the ice.
2) Oceans being flooded with massive amounts of green algea, sucking up CO2 and producing who knows what out of it.
3) Filling the skys with sulfer aerosols to block out the sun.
There is no way CO2 can be worse than any of those.
- dpedu 10y agoWhat? Did you read the article? That's not even close to the plan mentioned.
- nonbel 10y agoJust now I did, it says the new plan is: "building 10 million wind-powered pumps over the Arctic ice cap. In winter, these would be used to pump water to the surface of the ice where it would freeze, thickening the cap."
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoWouldn't that be salt water? Would it actually freeze at all?
- oppositelock 10y agoIt freezes just fine, just at a lower temperature of -2C.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoI wonder why the polar oceans don't freeze solid?
- mustntmumble 10y agoBecause ice floats to the top of the water, and insulates the water remaining down below beneath the ice.
- Steel_Phoenix 10y agoA proposal to salt the Arctic in order to lower the melting temperature wouldn't get much support, but it seems like it's also a valid description of the plan.