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A Multi-Billion-Dollar Curtain Around the ‘Doomsday Glacier’: A seabed curtain to protect Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica would be difficult and expensive, but doing nothing to slow the glacier's collapse could be even worse.
You know, you could also pump the fresh melt water out of the coffer dam to stop it over-flowing. You could sell it to drought stricken areas.... Now, if only there was some sector of industry that knew how to handle pipelines and tanker loads of fluid, who was direly in need of some good PR and a new business model as their old one dried up...
Cue tanker shipments of water in oil-contaminated cargo holds, mixed with bird shit and barnacles, to places like Brazil and Australia where it's bottled and sold as premium Antarctic glacier melt to "middle-class" chumps for crazy profits.
myblueear | a day ago
sounds a bit like supporting the tower of pisa with toothpicks against tipping over.
Ok_Chap | a day ago
They might as well try installing giant freezers at both poles to counter global warming.
I don't think it would work.
twist3d7 | 2 hours ago
Freezers create heat.
MrLyttleG | a day ago
En politique on a justement que des vendeurs de cure dents hyper chers et inutiles, what else?
myblueear | a day ago
Trucs nucléaires de 🇫🇷?
Ryanhis | a day ago
US DoD pisses away many billions of dollars every year. Let’s put that to work on something real.
sewmanychoices | a day ago
Talk about sweeping it under the rug... Or curtain, as it were.
mountaindewisamazing | a day ago
Don't look up
ttystikk | a day ago
I think using that money to subsidize the replacement of cars with electric vehicles would be a better way to spend it.
PineSand | a day ago
Sometimes when you screw with stuff you get unexpected unintentional consequences…
RespectTheAmish | 9 hours ago
No.
We can’t afford this.
Trump needs $10 billion for his IRS lawsuit and another $10 billion for his board of peace.
There’s nothing left.
Priorities Dammit!
Siliconshaman1337 | a day ago
You know, you could also pump the fresh melt water out of the coffer dam to stop it over-flowing. You could sell it to drought stricken areas.... Now, if only there was some sector of industry that knew how to handle pipelines and tanker loads of fluid, who was direly in need of some good PR and a new business model as their old one dried up...
gnatingale | 5 hours ago
lol. Do you know how far you would have to pump water to get from /antarctica/ to a populated area? Insane
gaflar | 4 hours ago
Oh dear god do not give them ideas.
Cue tanker shipments of water in oil-contaminated cargo holds, mixed with bird shit and barnacles, to places like Brazil and Australia where it's bottled and sold as premium Antarctic glacier melt to "middle-class" chumps for crazy profits.
Final-Artichoke-8995 | a day ago
Trump builds the best walls.
MikeLinPA | 15 minutes ago
The part that rusted, the part that washed out, the part that blew over, or the part with the bollards cut out?
(The cut bollards are extra amusing. He spent millions building a wall and migrants turned it into a door with hand tools. 🤦)
jsar16 | 23 hours ago
Hear me out, huge air conditioners to make sure it stays frozen.
tediousdetails3 | 17 hours ago
You should all read the Ministry of the Future.
LookOverall | 14 hours ago
The problem with all geoengineering ideas is, getting liability insurance.
digital | 3 hours ago
Laughs in environmental collapse
peaceloveandapostacy | a day ago
Hubris hubris everywhere. Pathetic earthlings think they can stop the increase in global enthalpy. Laughable asinine idea.
sungod-1 | 19 hours ago
Unbelievable!!!
They now have the public convinced that fresh glacier water is bad at the same time they scream about a water drought in the west