{"id":309997,"date":"2024-03-18T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=309997"},"modified":"2024-03-18T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:58:36","slug":"stupid-geoengineering-idea-of-the-week-no-year-no-decadeof-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=309997","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Geoengineering Idea of the Week, No Year, No Decade\u2026of All Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Perched on sea-ice off Canada\u2019s northern coast, parka-clad scientists watch saltwater pump out over the frozen ocean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their goal? To slow global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As sea-ice vanishes, the dark ocean surface can absorb more of the Sun\u2019s energy, which accelerates warming. So the researchers want to thicken it to stop it melting away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the wackier side of geoengineering \u2013 deliberately intervening in the Earth\u2019s climate system to try to counteract the damage we have done to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-68206309<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They are drilling a hole in the sea-ice that naturally forms in winter, and pumping around 1,000 litres of seawater per minute across the surface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The ultimate goal of the Arctic experiment is to thicken enough sea-ice to slow or even reverse the melting already seen, says Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, whose team at the University of Cambridge\u2019s Centre for Climate Repair is behind the project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At least the BBC talked to some semi-sane people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt is quite insane in my opinion that this could be done at scale for the entire Arctic Ocean,\u201d says Julienne Stroeve, a professor of polar observation and modelling at University College London.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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And then there\u2019s the huge logistical challenge of scaling the project up to a meaningful level \u2013 one estimate suggests that you could need about 10 million wind-powered pumps to thicken sea-ice across just a tenth of the Arctic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

These morons are discussing placing billions upon billions of dollars worth of heavy mechanical infrastructure on drifting impermanent ice floes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m having difficulty thinking of an imaginary plan that is more stupid that this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go to the BBC site to read the complete story of this inanity.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\/T John C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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