Snow Machines Could Rescue Melting Swiss Glacier

[rangerrebew]

Snow Machines Could Rescue Melting Swiss Glacier
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer | May 4, 2017 05:02pm ET
 

Receding polar ice caps provide one of the main indications of climate change's impact, and researchers have been investigating how to save the world's ice. One idea is undergoing a trial run in Switzerland, where a team will attempt to refreeze a landmark glacier using snow machines, New Scientist reported.

Morteratsch glacier, the test subject, will receive a layer of artificial snow each summer to protect the ice, according to New Scientist. The idea is that the glacier's surface, when covered with a thin coating of artificial snowflakes from machines, will reflect more sunlight and protect the ice below, the researchers said. Eventually, that will help the glacier to regrow, they said.

http://www.livescience.com/58975-snow-machines-could-rescue-melting-swiss-glacier.html

[Smokin Joe]

Nothing quite like refueling God's own bulldozer...

[Joe Wooten]

Those glaciers were much smaller during the medieval warm time than they are now. As they recede due to the end of the Little Ice Age, the remains of old villages, farms and silver mines are being found.