From Physorg.com
The Swiss alpine region of Valais is pictured in February 2008. German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday.
German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday.
“We hope our installations will bring about a net cooling of the area. And if the melt is not stopped, that it is at least slowed,” the project’s leader, geography professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs, said in a statement.
The structure, 15 metres long and three metres high (49 feet by 10 feet), was raised in the middle of the Rhone glacier in Switzerland’s southwestern Valais region by 27 students from the German university.
The purpose of the screen — which sits at an altitude of 2,300 metres — is to keep cold winds over the glacier.
Already successfully tested in a laboratory, the experiment will be studied on site until August 21, according to the university, located in the German city of Mainz.
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So far, the only noticeable affect of enhanced CO2, is that plants grow faster and need less water.
Why would we want to mitigate that?
I don’t object to thinking outside the box. Yes, most of it is silly 9prima facie) but that is the nature of such things.
Stipulating AGW is valid (which I sincerely doubt), I would much rather see some solution other than that advocated by Kyoto or the Stern Review. Any solution.
“*grunt*, no, Og, must be mammoth farts. Must kill off all mammoths!”