By 2050, will humans pump significant quantities of ocean water onto Antarctica to reduce sea levels?

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This market will resolve YES if either of the following occur:
1. In 2050, humans pump over 1 million acre-feet of water onto Antarctica.
2. By 2050, humans have pumped over 25 million acre-feet of water onto Antarctica.

This idea has received occasional news coverage in mainstream outlets, for example:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0310/Can-we-slow-sea-level-rise-by-pumping-water-onto-Antarctica

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This idea also featured prominently in "Ministry for the Future", a realistic climate change future novel by Kim Stanley Peterson.

This sounds harder than geting America to convert to less silly units than "acre-feet".

In case anyone is wondering, that is 1.2 trillion liters.

1.2 trillion liters of water can supply approximately 2,896,627 households for one year.

1.2 trillion liters of water is equivalent to nearly 8 years of Coca-Cola production.

@FranklinBaldo Finally! A unit of measurement Americans understand: Coca-Cola*years.

Not going to bet on anything past 2030, but "no", IMO, it's way too much work, better spent on sequestering CO2.

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@GrahamPoulter you're probably right - it's just a random thought I had yesterday.

@connorwilliams97 It's an interesting idea, but water gives off heat as it freezes, so (and I'm talking out of my butt here) wouldn't it just cause more planetary warming?