A group of scientists have released a landmark white paper on glacial geoengineering
- Glacial Geoengineering is the deliberate modification of the climate system around a glacier to slow the melt of the ice shelf and reduce sea level rise.
Proposed Glacial Geoengineering Strategies
- Ocean-heat transport interventions: Setting sediment berms or fibrous curtains along the seabed in the front of ice shelves to block the flow of warm circumpolar deep water.
- Basal-hydrology interventions: Slow the flow of streams that carry meltwater off the ice sheets.
- This can be done through drilling holes through glacier beds to create drainage channels, thereby diverting meltwater streams and slowing ice sheet loss.
