27.01.2020

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Sierra Club: Could Geoengineering Help Save the World’s Ice?

"Slowing the rate of ice melt there and elsewhere would allow for critical adaptation in at-risk areas, such as islands and coastal cities. Some researchers are looking to geoengineering to accomplish this. Michael Wolovick, a researcher at Beijing Normal University, is one of them. He and his colleague John Moore have studied a number of geoengineering strategies to prevent or slow the collapse of Thwaites Glacier."

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09.12.2019

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Phys.org: Can Arctic 'ice management' combat climate change?

"According to a much-debated geo-engineering approach, both sea-ice retreat and global warming could be slowed by using millions of wind-powered pumps, drifting in the sea ice, to promote ice formation during the Arctic winter."

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09.12.2019

# New Publications

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Zampieri, L.; et al. (2019): Sea Ice Targeted Geoengineering Can Delay Arctic Sea Ice Decline but not Global Warming

Zampieri, Lorenzo; Goessling, Helge F. (2019): Sea Ice Targeted Geoengineering Can Delay Arctic Sea Ice Decline but not Global Warming. In Earth's Future 7. DOI: 10.1029/2019EF001230.

"To counteract global warming, a geoengineering approach that aims at intervening in the Arctic ice‐albedo feedback has been proposed. A large number of wind‐driven pumps shall spread seawater on the surface in winter to enhance ice growth, allowing more ice to survive the summer melt. We test this idea with a coupled climate model by modifying the surface exchange processes such that the physical effect of the pumps is simulated."

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