Researchers from Arizona State University have proposed that to prevent the Arctic from thawing we need to spend upwards of $5 trillion to create “between 10 and 100 million floating, wind-powered pumps designed to spray water over sea ice during the winter.” For the budget minded they propose a scaled down version of a more moderate $500 billion of fewer floating wind-powered ice machines used to save 10 percent of the Arctic’s ice.
Will the water be desalinated?
You know, running water doesn’t freeze and running salt water will cut the ice like a knife.
Who would know more about ice than the Arizonans?
Or we could do nothing, spend nothing and wait for it to freeze when the cycle goes colder again
That’s brilliant! And we can power the fans with windmills!
This is going to be so cool!
I wonder how much taxpayer money was already spent on this bone-headed study?
Did perpetual motion Bill Nye come up with this scam?
ultra maroon 101
And we could put heaters in the Arizona Desert.
PHD … Pile it Higher and Deeper.
“between 10 and 100 million floating, wind-powered pumps designed to spray water over sea ice during the winter.”
I’m glad I wasn’t in the midst of taking a drink when I read that. The gum flying out of my mouth was bad enough. I need some screen wash.
Damn – – why didn’t I think of that?
They are hoping to improve the “ice albedo” at the pole. Sounds like a case of Reflectile Dysfunction.
Wow, and here I thought trying to build a giant 2,000 mile wall on the U.S. southern border was the goofiest thing I’ve ever heard.
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How about we take our chances because I’m betting in 2030 the world isn’t going to end. Trump should really review and cut all asinine funding, pretty much the majority going to leftist universities that when not indoctrinating young minds come up with this insanity.
Poppycock!
What an f-n embarrassment. Cant possibly be serious? This was just a ‘icebreaker’ question at a party, right?
I’ll do my part and plop a few ice cubes into a whiskey glass.
another ‘Onion’ article … right?
gad … from the sublime to the ridiculous in just a few generations
How bout everyone in North America just leave the frig door open. Will that help?
Arizona has kept John McStain in office since what…1983? They have to be right about this.😉
Buy up every air conditioner from Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart and Target, ship them to the Artic, and turn them on. Of course, you would need lots and lots of extension cords, but that’s a small price to pay for…doing whatever these people think need to be done.
How about if Dave takes a flying fuck on a rolling ice cube?
It would be less expensive to just cover the ice with pallets of money.
Welcome to “common core science”. Next on agenda terraforming a moon and moving whole state of Califiornia there. 😉
got it! we just need to get everyone in North America to run up to Baffin Bay in Canada & that will tip the Artic over closer to the Antarctic & everything’s cool … & the Mexicans can stay in Canada
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I think I now this guy. Yea, I’m sure he used to work for me. He got out forklift high centered one time and his solution was to hook a chain on the back end of the forklift, throw the chain over the steel cage to the forks, and lower the forks there by lifting the rear end of the fork lift in the air and setting it free. I would have fired him but the entertainment value he provided was priceless.
Your parents, they called and want their money back.
Don’t bother going home. They changed the locks and wont’ answer the door.
We don’t want you either, no jobs for you. Here is your future you idiots. https://www.starbucks.com/careers/retail-careers
Just as the wheels are coming off “climate change” science, who’d a thunk it?
vietvet’s sucking on the bong and going left on us
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The heavy thinking has been done. Now to strip the money from the schools who push this crap (including faculty pay) and use that to fund the windmills. We can put a plaque on each one thanking the individual schools for sacrificing to save the world.
Those SOBs stole that genius idea from that other fine Arizona resident, Wylie E. Coyote!!!
Whaaaaaaaat could possibly go WRONG???!!?!!!!
:: Better bong than dong.
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The school may be sadly lacking in in adult supervision.
Good money which could have been put to good use was instead absolutely wasted on this absurd abstraction.
Back in more civilized days crackpots were called crackpots.
Lets see if I have this right. We can’t afford to deport illegals, but we can afford to pump water onto an iceberg.
$5 Trillion? Why sure. Obama would’ve printed that out on a typical late Friday afternoon.
The inmates are running the asylum.
Why is it so fucking important that the Arctic stay frozen (not that it’s actually fully melting)? God forbid we have more shipping lanes and fishing areas.
Have you ever ridden in an airplane and looked out the window to see how massive the earth must be and then realized how puny man is in comparison?
How arrogant one must be to think man can controll the climate.
Besides, you don’t mess with Mother Nature. She knows what she is doing.
Hey…we could save 4 arctics at that price!
go and find the season 10 Top Gear Polar Special where Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond take a dog sled and a Toyota Pickup to the north pole. By DRIVING THERE.
The “arctic” is just fine, thank you very much. There is a lot of BS news that would like you to believe that it is melting and there are polar bears stranded on little tiny icebergs with sad faces. No. Not like that.
These “climate science” people are crazier than a bunch of loons. Sort of a combination of General Buck Turgidson and Jurassic Park scientists, they are going to re-engineer the planet in order to save it because they have an ability to look into a crystal ball and see the future. Oh yes, there is this little matter of zillions of your $$$ they are going to need. Trust them. I say round up these psycho-lunatics and get them medicated and into the Shady Acres resort out in the middle of N Dakota. This insanity permeates all levels of science and gov’t science, all the way to the top. LUNATICS
Let’s see… California just recovered from a perpetual, never to be relieved drought (according to climate gurus). So my buy-in factor to this URGENT need is… wait for it… ZERO.
But thanks for playing this round of *I want your money.*
Take the doors off of all the junk cars on Earth and send them to the Poles.
When they’re needed, just roll down all the windows!
Instant cold!
Wallah!
(no gov’t grant involved with this simple, yet useful, solution)
izlamo delenda est …