Volume 10 : November 2010 [in press] SUPPLEMENT #2 - Ice Shields and Climate Change.
GOOD NEWS! in this Supplement, researchers claim Ice Shields are a buffer against Climate Change for cities, livestock and biodiversity. Ice Shields are cheap to make, allowing permafrost to be repaired enough to lock up greenhouse gas and enable Taiga Forests to reappear. Prior to this, Ice Shields had been viewed as a very expensive problem for roads, bridges, navigation and mining, and until now the only advantages were in thickening river ice to allow vehicles to cross safely, and in thickening Arctic Sea Ice to allow oil rigs to drill without an offshore drilling platform. Ice Shields =naleds (Russian), taryn (Yakutian), aufeis (German) and icings (English). What is an Ice Shield? A thick slab of ice built of many thin layers. Each layer is created by a pulse of water that spreads out and freezes. The new layer seals the shield, causing pressure to build up in water below in a spring or river. The pressure causes the ice shield to blister, crack and rupture releasing water that freezes over the ice shield and so the process continues.
Joel Cutting Ice Shields as buffers against Climate Change for nomads and biodiversity. World Placer Journal 2010, volume 10, SUPPLEMENT #2 [article in preparation]. Chris Cartwright Ice Shields as a challenging new destination for adventure tourism. World Placer Journal 2010, volume 10, SUPPLEMENT #2 [article in preparation]. Minjin Batbayar A permanent Ice Shield in the Gobi Desert. World Placer Journal 2010, volume 10, SUPPLEMENT #2 [article in preparation].
Robin Grayson and Minjin Batbayar The novel potential of Ice Shields for reversing loss of permafrost. World Placer Journal 2010, volume 10, SUPPLEMENT #2 [article in preparation].
