Physicist Jennifer Francis and a team of his colleagues at the UK Natural Environment Research Council have proposed a novel solution to replenish the melting Arctic ice cap. In fact, sea ice growth stalled during the second week of January – in the heart of the Arctic winter – while the ice cap actually retreated within the Kara and Barents seas, and within the Sea of Okhotsk. The scientists' idea involves building more than a million wind-powered pumps over the ice and pumping water over it during the winter months in order to thicken the cap. Desch and his team have estimated that it will cost $ 500bn to implement the technique. If the Earth 's temperature continues to warm at current rates, Earth ice could vanish completely in the summer by the winter months .
Physicist Jennifer Francis and a team of his colleagues at the UK Natural Environment Research Council have proposed a novel solution to replenish the melting Arctic ice cap. The scientists' idea involves building more than a million wind-powered pumps over the ice and pumping water over it during the winter months in order to thicken the cap. Desch and his team have estimated that it will cost $ 500bn to implement the technique. If the Earth 's temperature continues to warm at current rates, Earth ice could vanish completely in the summer by the winter months .