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Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone

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On 11/18/2015 9:45 AM, gilber34 wrote:
> On 11/17/2015 8:12 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone
>>>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-greenland-major-glacier-undone.html
>

>>>> . The glacier is now breaking up and calving high
>>>> volumes of icebergs into the ocean, which will result in rising sea
>>>> levels for decades to come."
>>
>> Yawn.
>>
>>
>
> to fix it, millions of pieces of Styrofoam are being attached to the
> glacier surface, to keep in the cold, and reflect the heat of the
> burning sun.  It is estimated this effort will take Bob and Jon about 95
> years if someone delivers the styrofoam, and nails to them.

better just to put the styrofoam beads onto the sea, where they will 
reflect a lot more sunlight, as it is a thin layer, and keep the water 
cooler.  No nails needed.


>
> In other parts of the world, giant government funded Ice machines are
> making ice cubes using sea water and storing them in huge vaults
> underground, refrigerated of course.

refrigerators generate heat, so that process of making ice cubes adds 
heat to the earths surface.

Better to make millions of aluminized balloons filled with hydrogen 
(more available) and have them float up into the air for about 15 years, 
to reflect the Sun's burning heat rays.  Bet the energy released as heat 
making one of these balloons is less than total energy is reflected by 
the balloon.

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In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 19:32 -0600
  Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-18 02:12 +0000
    Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-18 09:45 -0600
      Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-18 11:00 -0600
        Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 13:48 -0800
  Re: In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 16:39 -0800

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