Scientists have been using underwater drones to thicken Arctic ice in a bid to slow “climate change.”
According to The New York Post, a group called Real Ice, which has funding from the UK government, is using hydrogen-powered drones to pump seawater to the surface of the Arctic during the winter months.
The seawater then freezes, “thickening the ice and providing an extra layer of protection during the relatively warmer summer months.”
Andrea Ceccolini, the head of Real Ice, told The Guardian, “This would have been a wild dream a year ago.”
The group has said that its goal is “to ensure that sea ice remains in the Arctic year-round.”
“When the sea ice disappears completely from the Arctic on a Summer day, it will trigger a Blue Ocean Event — a catastrophic tipping point that will result in rapid warming and expansion of the oceans, slowing of cold water currents, ocean acidification, and increasing violent storms and flooding of coastal cities.”
At present, the group is working on a small scale—they added 50 centimeters of extra ice through their efforts—but they hope to operate on a large scale once pilot studies are complete.
Geoengineering—deliberate attempts to alter the earth’s climate—has been proposed as a response to the “climate crisis,” and a number of early studies are underway to assess the viability of various different methods of cooling the planet.
One of the main methods involves pulling large amounts of “greenhouse gases” from the air, especially carbon dioxide.
Another involves releasing gases and particles that reflect solar radiation, essentially mimicking the cooling effects of a volcanic eruption.
Although geoengineering has been suggested as a response to climate change for some decades, scientists were generally opposed to large-scale interventions, suggesting they could cause more harm than good.
Now, however, more scientists are throwing their weight behind such projects, claiming any potential damage they might cause would be pale in significance compared to runaway “anthropogenic climate change.”
Current projects in Europe, America, Israel and Australasia involve a mixture of government and private funding.
In the US, individual states including Tennessee, Florida and Montana have passed bills to prohibit weather modification and geoengineering.
There are also efforts at the federal level to do the same, such as bill HR 4403—the Clean Skies Act.
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With how much theyve lied about EVERYTHING and done behind our backs and without consent- thus climste change bullshit in particular, is there a reason wbt we should let thek do this