The risks of geoengineering the Earth
AUG 03, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023561
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 . Related Physics Today articles Geoengineering: What, how, and for whom? February 2009 Will desperate climates call for desperate geoengineering measures? August 2008
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