Scientists want to build $80 billion WALL around the Doomsday Glacier

"An international group of scientists wants to build a 492ft-tall (150m), 50-mile-long (80km) wall running along the seabed 2,132ft (650m) beneath the surface. Dubbed the Seabed Curtain, scientists claim this ambitious project could halt the Doomsday Glacier's retreat and avert the devastating consequences of global warming. The Doomsday Glacier is a vast, slow-moving river of ice roughly the size of the UK that traps enough fresh water to raise sea levels a staggering 2.1ft (65cm)."

"The Seabed Curtain would anchor in front of the glacier's most vulnerable sections and prevent this warm current from reaching the ice. While the potential costs could reach well over $80billion (£58.7billion), the scientists say this is nothing compared to the destruction their wall could help prevent. The Seabed Curtain is currently in its initial phase of development, and the researchers haven't yet finalised the design."

A proposed Seabed Curtain would be a 150m-tall, 80km-long wall anchored to the seabed about 650m beneath the surface, placed in front of Thwaites Glacier’s most vulnerable sections. The structure would use reinforced tensile fabric suspended by buoyant elements and secured by heavy foundations to block warm ocean currents from reaching the glacier base and to trap cold water against the ice. Thwaites Glacier contains enough freshwater to raise global sea level by about 0.65m. Early modeling indicates the curtain could reduce local melting rates by up to a factor of ten. Estimated costs exceed $80 billion, and design work remains in early development with options for single continuous or fragmented sections.

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