Can we pump water into the north or south pole to stop the ocean's rise?

Question

Global warming is causing glaciers to melt, which is causing the sea to rise. Would it be possible to build giant pipes and pump the water deep into antarctica or another location where the temperature doesn't rise above 32 and store the water there in the form of ice?

We already have giant pumps and aquaducts all over the western US, couldn't a similar system work to pump water to a place where it could be frozen?

Assume that we would find a method of getting the water there without it freezing, such as keeping the pipes just warm enough so the water wouldn't freeze until it reached its location.

Answer 1

No, all the oceans are inter connected. There is no such place where the volume of water needed to to lower the sea level by the slightest amount by pumps to turn it to ice that that extra warmth generated by that huge amount would not adversely affect that environment and cause a worse problem.

Answer 2

If the ice caps are melting how is pumping more water there going to change anything. If ice is melting will water freeze? The truth is that while the "sea ice" is melting, the land based ice is actually becoming thicker, which follows given the warming of ocean currents. If you put all the processes together this makes sense. More heat - more evaporation - more precipitation when it cools (over the poles) - more snow - more ice, etc. BTW, I too, remember the GREAT GLOBAL COOLING AND IMPENDING ICE AGE scare. If you carefully read the link below you'll see that the computer models being used for all of this are not supported by the science. There are as many models as there are opinions and they're just models - nothing more.

Answer 3

An interesting idea. You'd need a huge amount of energy for the pumps. To lower the ocean level by 10 cm., you'd need to pump 36 million million cubic metres of water. But it isn't a crazy idea. It's quite conceivable that a few decades from now we'll have this sort of power from controlled nuclear fusion. A possible scenario would be to pump sea water from McMurdo Sound to somewhere on the Antarctic Plateau where the ice sheet is reasonably stable and where the temperature never rises above the freezing point of sea water. Somewhere like Vostok, 1000 km. further south and 3000 metres above sea level. I calculate that, at today's power prices this would require about $30 trillion worth of electricity. That's about the total world GDP for one year. Not possible today, but 30 years from now???

Answer 4

could could consider bestonne's answer and upload, on an identical time as the Arctic itself won't have a number of of an consequence on sea point (it rather is purely on wide-unfold 3-6 meters thick) it blocks/slows fairly some vast glaciers in Northern Canada, Europe/Russia and Greenland those could improve sea point devoid of the Arctic to sluggish them. The Antarctic is km's thick even a small soften at a number of the bigger glaciers might desire to enhance sea point m's. gen patton: the answer to "if all of it melts" and insults approximately nitwits aside the respond is ~150m purely because it rather is straightforward that it became ~70m decrease over the final ice age, you are able to desire to do greater learn considerable patton. DaveH: the present temp on the south pole (the coldest place in the worldwide) (truthfully that's Vostok station -88c) actuality is, it rather is presently nonetheless popping out of wintry climate and -61c is approximately wide-unfold, utilising the graph you offered it rather is exceptionally consumer-friendly to work out that from the 80s onwards the version between wintry climate lows and summer highs is getting larger with quite a few spikes interior the 2000s. confident it rather is snowing greater, because of the fact the seas around Antarctica are warming, Antarctica is the driest place in the worldwide, i.e. little precipitation (snow), this has larger these days yet a glacier continues to be water yet moving at a plenty slower p.c.., if the 'enter' will improve then the pass additionally will improve that's authentic of rivers and glaciers. Deniers prefer to hold up Antarctica as evidence GW isn't taking place because of the fact it rather is getting greater snow fall, and ice is somewhat larger, concern is that's precisely what maximum climatologists suggested could take place a decade in the past.

Answer 5

huh. that sounds like a quick fix solution. I'm pretty sure that the since the polar ice caps are melting, and global warming meaning that the WHOLE world is warming up, the poles would probably reach temperatures above freezing water. i'm not totally sure if that will work.

Answer 6

Here you will find a reference on growing glaciers:
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF16/1678.html

Global warming supporters are presenting the data in such a way that the conclusions are written ahead.

The same people that speak about global warming spoke about global cooling in the seventies. I believe you were not around. I remember 1970 we all kids were very afraid about the news of the global cooling and our geography teacher smack us off with "what do you think, that the climate can be measured a compare in such short time spans. I do not want to hear about global cooling again.

You know in 30 years, you will be around and I wont and you will be explaining to someone that 3o years ago everything was about global warming and now all this is about global cooling and you remember a guy that told you the same thing happened 60 years ago....

Answer 7

it would just cause ocean currents. the Ice caps are melting from lack of ozone protection. this is from pollution, and the fact that the north and south poles are about to switch polarity, so are weakening. if we were to solve these issues first, it might be possable, but there's probably a better way.

Answer 8

This sounds like a temporary fix, but where are we going to get the energy to pump the water? I've got a better idea. Let's borrow Stargate SG-1 which does not seem to need energy and transport excess water to Mars.

Answer 9

remember that you would not be solving the problem, just one of the many effects of a sick climate. If you were in a burning house, would you stay inside and just keep pooring water over yourself?

Answer 10

global warming is a farce