Hi Brian, My first thought was that you must be mad to even consider such an idea. But actually there is an acute problem with warm ocean currents melting away at the terminations of Antarctic glaciers and causing accelerated ice mass loss "beyond a tipping point" for some glaciers. If we could mix the colder currents with warmer currents, this might slow the ice mass loss.
Cheers, John On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Brian White <gaiatechnic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Drake-Passage_profile_hg.png> > The drake passage is around 800 km wide and if the current in the southern > half of the passage was slowed (even slightly) the Antarctic continent > could be released from its splendid isolation. If a series of anchors with > wire ropes 2 km long held up by some sort of buoy (4 or 8 thousand of > them) were dropped from the Antarctic side, they would slow the freezing > current somewhat and create eddies as the current passes them. The eddies > would warm the water and this would reduce the extreme temperature > differences that cause the winds. Very gradually, we could stop the > freezing current and the winds that keeps it separate from the rest of the > climate of the earth. What happens then? Will the continent melt or > will the extra water vapor mean more ice there? Will the southern ozone > hole fill? (It is big because it is so cold). > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfSJigmL8kI > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
