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With the West Antarctic ice sheet starting to melt, which can lead to a rise in sea levels, a team of researchers has come up with a radical proposal: To artificially create snow to thicken up the ice sheet. SMU Associate Professor of Humanities, Winston Chow, who is an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Lead Author on climate impacts on cities, said that the idea is a “non-starter" as it would be staggeringly expensive.