While this would certainly help the glacier from breaking apart, the effort required would be imense and a geotechnical nightmare. Building dikes above ground is tough enough as is.
On top of that we are warming so quickly. I don’t see how this would stop the sheet from melting from air temperature/solar radiation
While this would certainly help the glacier from breaking apart, the effort required would be imense and a geotechnical nightmare. Building dikes above ground is tough enough as is.
On top of that we are warming so quickly. I don’t see how this would stop the sheet from melting from air temperature/solar radiation
I’d imagine the water makes in melt a lot quicker.
On a cold day at like 4c or in your fridge. Put a large ice cube on something insulating and put a similar ice cube in a large bucket of water.
It’s why if you go through the ice into the water you should roll around in the snow. The most important thing is to be dry.