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Re-Engineering Earth

Re-Engineering Earth

Ideas: Energy & Environment July/August 2009 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.

by Graeme Wood

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/climate-engineering

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