Can $500 Million Save This Glacier? A bold engineering project might show a way to slow sea-level rise — and bring new imagination to the fight against climate change.

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

if the 500 million was spent putting up wind turbines and solar panels you'd save more gkaciers melting overall and make a profit.

This would be a pretty large project. Wouldn’t the greenhouse gases emitted from the construction equipment and ships add to the problem?

What a fascinating read! Thank you for sharing this article.

That's some out of the box thinking 👍

They're going to put a white tarp on it, right?

In the realm of crazy ideas, why not flood parts of the Sahara? Build a canal from the closest sea and just let it drain into there. There are also areas in Australia that were one great lakes that could also have a canal or two built to them from the ocean and flooded. Given the temperature in those places, it might make enough condensation to rejuvenate those and surrounding areas with the precipitation.