• Poplar?@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The water from the ice will find its way to the oceon whether it melts in Greenland or the UAE though?

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Yes, with different effects. I’m not saying this will really have a measurable influence, but melt into Greenland waters is far worse than in most other places. Just look into papers discussing the AMOC slowdown and its causes.

    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
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      10 months ago

      Well, arguably, maybe not.

      Relocating it into more distant water cycles kinda dilutes the dilution, so to speak. Rather than dumping a bunch of fresh water directly into salt water, it lets it trickle back slowly and gives ocean water a bit of a buffer to disolve more saline, and gives it a chance to get stuck on terra firma somehow.

      I didnt expect a good explanation for this, but harvesting broken glacier isnt a bad idea on paper.