Scientists reveal absurd plan to re-freeze the Arctic in order to stop climate change

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What sounds like a maniacal Bond-villain plan may actually be a sign of desperation in the climate science community.

Physicist Steven Desch has pitched an out of the box solution for temporarily delaying the effects of global warming: Pumping millions of gallons of water into the Arctic caps to bolster its dwindling supply of ice.

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The plan would work by building millions of wind-powered steel pumps that would gush water onto the Arctic surface, almost like hosing down a driveway during the winter to create an ice rink.

Desch spoke to The Guardian about his plan, which was recently published in the scientific journal Earth's Future.

"Our only strategy at present seems to be to tell people to stop burning fossil fuels," Desch told The Guardian. "It's a good idea but it is going to need a lot more than that to stop the Arctic's sea ice from disappearing."

Desch's plan would come with a hefty price tag of $500 billion; a cost that might seem worth it when people take into account just how badly the Arctic is doing.

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An Arctic report card recently released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the region's temperature was the highest since 1900, resulting in sudden and large swabs of the region being melted.

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