Posted on 03/10/2024 3:05:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An absurd geoengineering project involving placing a 62-mile curtain in front of an Antarctic glacier to stop warm-water currents from melting it is being proposed by scientists. The scientists are looking for $50 billion from the 29 nations who are signatories to the Antarctic Treaty, signed in 1959. The United States is an original signatory to the treaty, which states that “Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only.”
The glacier in question is known as Thwaites Glacier, a Great Britain-sized hunk of ice located in western Antarctica. It has been nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” by climate zealots because it can be subject to warmer ocean currents. Climate alarmists claim that climate change, brought on by human emissions of greenhouse gases, is responsible for disrupting what they call “traditional ice thickening and thinning cycles” of the glacier.
Climate zealots worry that if the “Doomsday Glacier” collapses, it could lead to a global sea-level rise of up to 10 feet. The same zealots tell us that a sea-level rise of just two feet would be catastrophic for coastal cities such as Miami, New Orleans, and New York.
The glacier curtain is the brainchild of John Moore, a glaciologist from the University of Lapland in Finland.
According to Moore, his main issue is this: “Earth’s two large ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will deteriorate under all scenarios of climate change projected for the future. This deterioration has already begun for both Antarctica and Greenland and is causing an ever-accelerating pace of sea-level rise that will persist into the coming centuries regardless of how optimistically humanity can shift away from carbon-based energy systems.”
Hence the gigantic curtain, which Moore and his colleagues hope to anchor on the Amundsen Sea floor in an effort to block warmer ocean currents...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
The Great Wall of Gullibility.
This has some drawings of the proposed idea:
We should send brainless and his incompetent admiration to the glacier with ice picks. Tell brainless that is a pint of Ben & berries in center and all they have to do is pick away until the find it.
What about the poor penguins?
5.56mm
A bra for a glacier to keep it from sagging?
Is John Kerry lobbying for this project?
nothing but a shake down for $$$
So what I’m hearing is we have to convince the dems there is a glacier approaching the southern border and they will dump billions on a wall for us.
They want to build a wall in Antarctica rather than on the southern border?
Bill would advise them to ‘put some ice on it’.
As effective as putting toothpicks on the track to stop a freight train...
+1!
The only thing wrong with the climate are the fake climate scientists that know nothing about climate
ALMOST $1 BILLION a mile
climate zealots
Now the kicker — Kerry acknowledged that, since almost 90% of the world’s pollution comes from outside the USA, if we cut our emissions to zero it wouldn’t make much of a difference. Those are Kerry’s words, not mine. Since Democrats can’t run on stopping inflation, lowering gas prices, reducing crime, closing our southern border or running on foreign policy success, they must champion climate change. When you’ve got a cause that’s already dead in the water, give it to President Biden, who couldn’t sell water to people dying of thirst in the Sahara Desert — your cause is lost.
ALMOST $1 BILLION a mile
Could sterilize every welfare mother in the world.
Oy very.🙄
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