[Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)]

So the glaciers are melting. They're not going to all melt overnight or in the course of a year or two, so that gives us time to try to figure out how to deal with the water that might flood a bunch of our coastal cities. How about we come up with a way to deflood our planet like we do with our basements? We can figure out a cheap, environmentally friendly way to transport our excess water to Mars in a campaign that solves three huge problems:

1. So yes, melting ice caps will cause water to flood many of our coastal cities. We remove the excess water/ice from our planet.

2. Whether global warming succeeds in the destruction of our planet or not, we need to terraform Mars. We will use that water as part of the terraforming process.

3. On both sides of the Atlantic there is another huge problem we both share: that of course is what to do with our pedophiles when they're released from prison. We don't want them living in our neighborhoods, nor do we want millions or billions of our taxpayer dollars paying for those cozy mental hospitals for sex offenders. I have a place for them: Mars. Just like in most wars, I can't imagine getting the aforementioned accomplished without humans on the ground there, no matter how technologically advanced we get. So yeah, we'll have them man that planet. Appropriating the water, sending fluorine compounds into the atmosphere, and mining the first colonies. As the ancient Egyptians would tell us, if you have highly ambitious projects, accomplish them with lots of cheap labor. It would be slave labor we won't feel bad about.

[evan_au]

It currently costs around $20,000 per pound to launch payload into Low Earth Orbit. A large part of that cost goes into fuel and oxidiser, which gets burned into: a lot of water.

The Curiosity Rover mission cost about $2,500,000,000 to land around 9,500 pounds on Mars; that's about $26,000 per pound, so I guess escaping Earth's atmosphere is the biggest barrier.

It is thought that around 5 million cubic kilometers of water exists near the Martian surface, frozen in the soil. So I think that a good first step would be to send a solar-powered mining robot, able to use solar power to split water into oxygen (breathing + oxidiser) and hydrogen (for fuel).

It's more efficient to dig it up on Mars than to ship it from Earth.

To keep one person alive for the 9 month journey to Mars, and then alive on Mars for a year would take many tons of equipment for a 1-way journey. So I'd rather spend the money on trained astronauts than on random people we don't like.

[Bored chemist]

The planet has a fresh water shortage.
Sending ice to Mars is madness.