This is exactly what happens when you try and not do enough to prevent phenomenons such as global warming and ignore the warnings of those who have been predicting travesties such as this for a long time. Now we are doing everything that is crazily possible to ensure that we try and reverse the effects of a century’s pollution with quick and snappy solutions that are basically nothing beyond measures of desperation. 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.
The structure, 15 meters long and three meters 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 a German university. The purpose of the screen—which sits at an altitude of 2,300 meters—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 Swiss city of Mainz.
Johannes Gutenberg University surely is trying to do what it can to avert some major disaster in the future due to excessive melting of the icebergs, but one has to understand that such last-ditch desperation steps are not the answer. While one lauds the guys for their concern and hopes this experiment will succeed and give us respite, it will have to be seen what concrete steps are to follow.
Via: breitbart
