Source: Huge Artificial Wall Under Antarctica Could Stop Glaciers Melting and Prevent Sea Level Rise To prevent catastrophic sea level rise under continued global warming, scientists have proposed a radical new plan: Build a wall. But not just any wall—the biggest wall in the world. Princeton’s Michael Wolovick and John Moore, from the Beijing Normal University, say an artificial wall to stop warm water getting to Antarctica's glaciers would prevent further melting. This wall would be “the biggest civil engineering projects that humanity has ever attempted” and, at its most extreme design, would stretch the entire width of the Thwaites Glacier—between 50 and 60 miles. . . . Tempting the Orange One? Bob Wilson
That is much shorter than the Sahara Desert wall he suggested to control Spain's migration problem. Further discussion of Sahara wall to FHoPol: https://priuschat.com/threads/trump-build-that-wall.181142/page-2#post-2784526
Perhaps some Civil Engineers here will download free article and supplemental from Cryosphere. I'm not able to criticize this proposal. But they do attempt to rationalize by comparing to existing large structures not built high at all. And not built in such an inhospitable environment. You can't just send boat(s) to Thwaites Glacier ocean face. Ice ice baby. You can't put a zillion tons of construction infrastructure on top of glacier falling-away face. Well, you could, for the purpose of getting amazing video of all that stuff falling away. But, computer graphics fake video would be way cheaper.
A wall of similar length is proposed for Texas coast: Oil industry wants government to build seawall to protect refineries from climate change effects | OregonLive.com Would have value for more coastal structures than those built for petrochemistry. Does not seem to be a cure all, in that Hurricane Harvey's rain fell on what would have been the wrong side of it.
