A heat shield for the most important ice on earth

    Betteridge's law (of headlines) is an adage that states "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Here's a better solution than glass bubbles or whatever geo-engineering stunt people come up with: how about we adjust our culture and attitude to value the biosphere instead of feeding it into a meatgrinder; to encourage companies to make things that last instead of making things that break and need to be thrown away; to look at our energy use and just stop using so much of it.

How about that?

> In the next 2,000 years the sea level is predicted to rise > by 2–3 m (6–10 ft) if the temperature rise peaks at 1.5 °C (2.7 °F), > by 2–6 m (6–19 ft) if it peaks at 2 °C (3.6 °F) and > by 19–22 m (62–72 ft) if it peaks at 5 °C (9.0 °F)

Additionally

> If temperature rise stops at 2 °C (3.6 °F) or at 5 °C (9.0 °F), the sea level would still continue to rise for about 10,000 years. In the first case it will reach 8–13 m (26–42 ft) above pre-industrial level, and in the second 28–37 m (92–12 ft).

It is over 2000 years though. By 2100 the absolute worst case scenarios have sea level rise at about 2m

(note: I rounded down halves of ft to make it more readable, but the metres are unchanged)

https://youtu.be/0SYpUSjSgFg?t=66