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Suggestion Box; Protect Greenland Ice Cover

Why Is This Idea Important?: Prevent inundation of coastal areas of highly-populated areas with seawater due to rising sea levels, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES. Melting of the Greenland ice cover CANNOT be allowed to happen.

I would like to see a Suggestion Box for new ideas beyond the brainstorming period. I have a brainstorming idea: protect the Greenland ice cover. Per the Discovery Channel "Project Earth" DVD's, this can be done by installing reflective cover sheets over portions of the coastal areas. This would be very costly and may require United Nations funding but if the ice cover melts the consequences would be a rise of at least 2 feet in global sea elevations, putting huge numbers of people and property at risk, a far more costly consequence. Recovery of meltwaters shipped by tankers to fill aquifers would partially offset the capital costs. This is a high priority issue and deserves appropriate attention. Thank you. Terry Fisher, P.Eng.

Submitted by tjfisher 3 years ago

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  1. derek61

    Terry, I think that your 2 feet is low, http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/ lists 6.55 meters (21 feet), worse yet 64 Meters and 8 meters for the East and West Antarctic ice sheets.

    3 years ago
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  2. mchlsrrb

    It would make no difference to the Earth, it would make a difference locally but the heat reflected will bounce back from the CO2 in the air.

    Only solar radiation gets thru because of its Million degree temperature and the temperature fixes the wave frequency. That is why the sun rays go thru but the Earth radiation is kept in our planet, like a Greenhouse.

    3 years ago
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  3. derek61

    mchlsrrb - what? The intent is to reflect the visible spectra back to space before it is absorbed by dark(er) material such as rock, vegetation, water. Once the visible light is absorbed, what ever has absorbed it radiates infra-red radiation (depending on the temperature and color of the body. Yes I am a physicist.

    3 years ago
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