A team of the world's best ice cream and climate researchers studied a handful of recently published engineering concepts for protecting the Pool -ice roofs of the earth and discovered that none of them will probably work.
Their peer-reviewed research, published on Tuesday, shows some of the non-tested ideas, such as scattered particles in the atmosphere to rise sunlight or to rise ice caps with pumped water again, can have unpredicted and dangerous consequences.
The various speculative concepts that are driven, mainly through public relations efforts, include things such as spreading reflective particles across newly formed sea ice to promote the persistence and growth of it; Gigantic Ocean floor sea walls or curtains build to bend warmer water flows from ice racks; Pumping water from the base from glaciers to the surface to freeze it again, and even deliberately pollute the upper atmosphere with sulfur -based or other reflective particles to dim sunlight.
Research shows that the sunlight-diminutive concept of rainfall patterns such as seasonal monsoons that are crucial for agriculture can shift in some areas, and also intensify regional heat, precipitation and drought. And the authors of the new article wrote that some of the mechanical interventions to preserve ice probably would disrupt regional ocean ecosystems, including the marine food chain, from small krill to gigantic whales.
Main author Martin Siegert, a glaciologist at the University of Exeter, said that to give an extensive picture of the challenges, the new Paper 40 authors included expertise on fields such as Oceanography, Marine Biology, Glaciology and Atmospheric Science.
The Paper resists a promotional geo-engineering story with scientifically based evidence that the difficulties and unintended consequences of some of the ambitious companies demonstrate, he said. Most ideas for geo-engineering are at its best climate tires. They only tackle symptoms, he added, but do not tackle the cause of the problem – Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
