The Real Ice trial in Canada pumped seawater from below the ice sheet onto the surface.
Real Ice
Each winter, Canada builds more than 7000 kilometres of ice roads, in part by drilling holes in lake ice and pumping water onto the surface, where it freezes and thickens the ice for massive vehicles, as seen in the TV series Ice Road Truckers.
If we did the same thing on top of Arctic sea ice, could we thicken it enough to stop it from disappearing? That’s the…
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