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I was remined of Carl Sagan's idea for possibilitating human colonization in Mars: engineer and plant black flowers on the ice caps of Mars. The flowers would absorb heat, which would free the water.
And, with water, you can have life.
I've always been fond of the "nuke the fuck out of it" school myself: detonate enough gigatons of fusion explosives that it cracks the free carbon dioxide out of the limestone and gets you a greenhouse effect.
The quantity of detonations is positively Strangelovian.