In California, a nonprofit, Ice911, is trying to slow down ice cap melting and global warming with geoengineering by replacing the lost reflectivity of the Arctic’s ice with a safe reflective material. Working with Climformatics, Ice911 created a large-scale deployment plan to spread the degradable material on top of the ice in strategic locations to help build its albedo, or ability to reflect. The material is “a form of floating sand, made of silica — glass-based not plastic,” according to GreenBiz.
“After extensive field testing, we have the technology, the team and the experience to significantly reduce the impacts of climate change by 2020 and give the world time,” Dr. Leslie Field, founder and CEO told GreenBiz. “Our modeling shows that targeted annual applications of the Ice911 albedo-enhancing material would result in an immediate shift of the Arctic climate state to thicker ice and a colder Arctic.”