If truly successful, this solution will be salvation from the danger of a thaw, causing sea level rise around the world.
Global warming is melting ice – and it is a great threat to our life on this planet. Many ideas and solutions are given to slow down the thaw and help glaciers to find their melted zone.
The work of Michael Wolovick – a postdoctoral student in ice sciences at Princeton University promises to go further than that.
As a result, in order to be able to withstand the thaw, Michael plans to put “sandbags” as an underground fill under the sea.
These sandbags will prevent warm ocean currents from reaching the lower part of the glacier. Since then, reducing the rate of ice melting to centuries, even glaciers will have time to restore lost areas on their own.
Michael said that while it only ends with the simulation, the work has made some very positive progress.
In a simulated test with the Thwaites Glacier, small ice caps reduced the drift distance to about 100 km from where they are now.
The reason the Thwaites Glacier was chosen to test this project is its importance in the fight against the melting of the polar ice.
Thwaites is the size of the US state of Florida, located in the Amundsen Sea in western Antarctica and is up to 4 km thick but has a very thin rim.
This margin, when exposed to the warmer water below the sea surface, will gradually thin and cause thaw, reduce the ice surface at the poles, and increase sea level.
It is predicted that if the Thwaites Glacier melts completely, the global sea level will rise by 1 to 2 meters.
If this turns out to be true, then Vietnam will no longer have a rice granary called the Mekong Delta because 90% of the rice area will be completely submerged!
Although the path is simple and does not require high technology, even the author himself calls this solution “low-tech”, but Michael believes that this is the solution that solves the problem.
This work was first presented at the American Geophysical Association’s annual meeting held last December.
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