The
Atlantic: 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
says
The
Atlantic's Graeme Wood.
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The risks of geoengineering the Earth
3 August 2009
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.5.023561
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