NBC News promoted a new idea to mitigate “rising seas:” build more icebergs with a fleet of ice-making submarines.
NBCNews.com reported the “audacious plan” on Aug. 6, writing “Designers in Indonesia have offered up what may be the most audacious plan yet: they propose building ice-making submarines that would ply polar waters and pop out icebergs to replace melting floes.”
It called rising seas “one of the most worrisome consequences of climate change” and traced that threat to the “problem” of melting icebergs.
“A fleet of the ice-making subs, operating continuously, could create enough of the 25-meter-wide ‘ice babies’ to make a larger ice sheet, according to the designers,” NBC reported.
The only criticism in the story was from climate alarmists concerned about the “feasibility” of the iceberg-making sub idea.
University of Colorado’s director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center Mark Sereze asked, “What are you going to do, put out a flotilla of 10,000 submarines?”
He also asked who would build them, how much energy they would cost and what forms of energy would they run on.
He called it a “Band-Aid,” rather than a solution.
NBC conveniently neglected research that cast doubt on the idea that melting icebergs have anything to do with rising sea levels.
President of the International Sea Level Institute John Englander wrote “Why Melting Icebergs Don’t Affect Sea Level” in 2018.
“As icebergs melt and the water warms back into the ‘normal’ ocean temperature range above 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) the density increases, reducing the volume. As a result, the actual melting of ice does not add to the level of the water – regardless whether the liquid is your glass of iced tea, or the ocean – though it does defy intuition and seems perplexing. It is truly one of nature’s phenomena,” Englander wrote.
Under Common Misconceptions About Glaciers the AntarcticGlaciers.org site also wrote in 2018 that “Sea ice floats, and when it melts, it does not contribute to sea-level rise.”
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Apparently no one at NBC has ever filled a glass of water with ice and water and then watch the ice melt–did the water level increase and spill over?
Another point, there has not been any identified uptick in the rate of the oceans rising for the last 100+ years so apparently the scare of global warming has done nothing to increase ocean levels.
Also, as the article mentions, what do these subs creating the ice run on? I can’t imagine hundreds of new nuclear vessels out there in the arctic as giant ice machines. Otherwise you’ve got diesel-powered subs that would be spewing that god-awful Carbon Dioxide (which supposedly causes global warming) in order to slow global warming causing oceans to rise. Why does this not sound like a boondoggle for somebody?
While on this topic, I’m just as capable of cooking up dopey schemes as NBC is AND I have a fully functioning brain. Try this idea on for size:
Build a pipeline, equipped with pumps and chilling stations that leads from the waters along the fringes of an Antarctic ice shelf up to an elevated mid-continental location. Here, the pipe can empty the imported water through a difuser to assure that it freezes in the air and adds to the perennial ice mass well above sea level. Ta-dah! the imaginary problem of sea level rise is solved. You can thank me later.
I’m in! Perhaps we can put a proposal together to the IPCC or some other group to fund us to the tune of millions of dollars. The process has already been proven with the snow-making machines in the ski resorts around the country (and world I’m sure).
President of the International Sea Level Institute John Englander . . .
Wait a minute here! There actually IS such a thing as this? In any case, he’s trying way to hard to explain that melting icebergs don’t affect sea level. The basic fact is that the water is already displaced by the floating ice. There is just no net difference in sea levels when you melt ice that floats within it. You can try this yourself with a drinking glass and an ice cube.
So just how many of these NBC wanks have ever been to t he Arctic and seen all the Ice and those Arctic Terns
The Lying Peacock has not learned its lesson from their GM Truck scandal from back in 1993
Somebody has no freaking idea how refrigeration works!
Once again the Lying Peacock tells us a whole lot of total malarkey then they wonder why we don’t trust them anymore well they had better clean up their own yard before complaining about ours