With the Arctic warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, a new scientific paper is proposing a radical scheme to thicken the ice cap: millions upon millions of autonomous ice machines.
Specifically, between 10 and 100 million floating, wind-powered pumps designed to spray water over sea ice during the winter.
Related: “Wet streets cause rain”.
Someone wants to play god?
Bet there have been many itsy-bitsy details missed.
See file: Drought, Permanent California
Section: no need to fix dams, reservoir will be empty soon
Melmelin…you beat me to it.
Actually the whole global warming/climate change scam is about delusions of grandeur “We can control the weather. You must submit to the wannabe gods!”
Having solved the riddle of perpetual motion, the world’s scientists move on to more pressing issues.
Where the hell do they find these loons?
But, but… we gotta do SOMETHING!
Let me elaborate on my previous post with my own opinion on what this proposal is about:
The proponents of this scheme have no expectation that it will be attempted at any scale. The probably don’t even care that it would not work. They only want to create more alarm, to lay the groundwork for other expensive solutions, most likely involving taxes and “green” initiatives. The idea they are planting here is that the problem is so great that it merits consideration of a monstrously huge investment of our resources. Five trillion worth. Any other proposed idea is likely to be much less expensive, and therfore more palatable.
Bad smell causes cow farts
Why not just paint everything white?
Gosh, maintenance on those, floating around in the artic ocean, ought to be just loads of fun!
Sorry, that’s already been suggested here.
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Call 1-800-GET-SMRT
Operators standing by.
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where is the water coming from? the SALT containing Arctic Ocean.
SALT *melts* ice and snow.
for this advice I charge the greenies a mere 100 million.
sheeesh.
So, on top of the mining, manufacturing, and transportation that will create much so-called global warming emissions, and the need to transport maintenance workers which create more of these emissions, there is also the tiny little engineering fact that you dumping a bunch of MOTORS in there which during operations WILL CREATE HEAT in the immediate area of the ice they are trying to create. Have they considered that?
Clean cars cause rain.
The watermelons prove yet again that sites like The Onion are redundant.
Notice in the Post the guy is using a gas powered engine as well the north pole picture is from 2005…
LIEberal science, at it’s best
These characters must have gotten their science degrees at the same institution that taught electrical engineering & economics to the McSquinty/Whynne gang…
All it will take for some great hockey is a zamboni the size of Iceland.
Make
I’ve seen some crazy-assed ideas before but this takes the cake.
When I read this, I thought I had slept through the rest of Feb and March, right to April Fools Day!
I believe 7 Billion Humans wearing White T Shirts while actively increasing the number of Humans to wear more T shirts; while drinking Chilled Ouso laying on a white sand beach will be more effective.
Shit causes flies.