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Using Barges to Fight Global Warming

An anonymous reader writes "Dr. Peter Flynn, Poole Chair in Management for Engineers in the University of Alberta Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed what he would like to consider a fall back plan to help combat the effects of global warming, in northern Europe. Flynn proposes using 'more than 8,000 barges moving into the northern ocean in the fall, speeding the initial formation of sea ice by pumping a spray of water into the air, and then, once the ice is formed, pumping ocean water on top of it, trapping the salt in the ice and reaching a thickness of seven meters. In the spring, water would continue to be pumped over the ice to melt it, forming a vast amount of cold, salty water that sinks and adds to the down-welling current to re-strengthen it.'"

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  1. Barges? Pffft! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We need a giant space lens to alter the sunlight hitting Earth. We can really control global warming that way.

  2. Did I read that right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Say.......what? Why don't liberals try to solve actual problems? I will never understand the herd mentality of liberal chicken littles who whine about us "destroying" God's Creation. We can't do it, if we could destroy the earth that means God doesn't exist, God exists so we can't destroy the earth. Why don't we solve actual problems like the poor going hungry? Or the sick not being tended? Our government loves to shit on the poor and I don't see many Christians helping out the poor or throwing the bums out of the government.

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