Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Re-Engineering the Earth

by Graeme Wood

As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And that’s the scariest part.

Re-Engineering the Earth - The Atlantic (July/August 2009)

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