Mencho is among the researchers looking at possible plans to change the future of icebergs. The strategies proposed by groups around the world include building physical support to support them and install huge curtains to slow the warm water that speeds melting. Another approach, which will be the axis of Arête, is called basal intervention. It mainly includes digging holes into the ice rivers, which would allow water that flows down the ice to pump and freeze them, and we hope you slow down.
If you have questions about how all this works, you are not alone. These are almost huge engineering projects, which will be expensive, and they will face legal and moral questions. No one really owns Antarctica, and is governed by a huge treaty – how can we decide whether to move forward with these projects?
Then there is a question of possible side effects. Just see Last news From the Arctic ice project, which was looking at how to slow the melting of marine ice by covering it with designed materials to reflect sunlight. (Marine ice is different from ice rivers, but some major issues are the same.)
One of the largest field experiments of the project included the deployment of small silica grains, such as sand, over 45,000 square feet of ice in Alaska. But after new research revealed that the materials may disrupt food chains, the organization announced that it concludes its research and ends its operations.
Certainly cutting greenhouse gas emissions to stop climate change at the source will be more evident than the spread of ice beads, or an ice stopping an area of 74,000 miles in its paths.
But we do not do it hot when cutting emissions – in fact, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere It rose faster than ever in 2024. Even if the world stops contaminating the atmosphere with warm planet gases today, things may have already gone far to save some of the most vulnerable glaciers.
Whenever the student of climate change is long and face the position in which we are, the more you understand the motivation to look at every choice there, even if it seems like science fiction.
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