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tiku
Or perhaps drifting platforms that stay adrift at the edge and blow water onto the ice? That way it's even possible to measure the edges.. This way it would even help to stop pieces from breaking at the edge (and thus floating away to warmer climates.)
nurettin
This sounds like that futurama episode where they drop a giant ice cube into the sea whenever it gets too hot.

https://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/13083-how-big-would...

nonbel
These schemes are all insane. Just imagine the damage done to the environment by:

1) Tens of millions of fans floating in the ocean and blowing air on the ice.

2) Oceans being flooded with massive amounts of green algea, sucking up CO2 and producing who knows what out of it.

3) Filling the skys with sulfer aerosols to block out the sun.

There is no way CO2 can be worse than any of those.

dpedu
What? Did you read the article? That's not even close to the plan mentioned.
nonbel
Just now I did, it says the new plan is: "building 10 million wind-powered pumps over the Arctic ice cap. In winter, these would be used to pump water to the surface of the ice where it would freeze, thickening the cap."
JoeAltmaier
Wouldn't that be salt water? Would it actually freeze at all?
oppositelock
It freezes just fine, just at a lower temperature of -2C.
JoeAltmaier
I wonder why the polar oceans don't freeze solid?
mustntmumble
Because ice floats to the top of the water, and insulates the water remaining down below beneath the ice.
Steel_Phoenix
A proposal to salt the Arctic in order to lower the melting temperature wouldn't get much support, but it seems like it's also a valid description of the plan.
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dTal
If the political will to do something like that existed, we wouldn't need to do it.