Geoengineering Is Being Pushed By Politicians and Scientists … But It May Do MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Scientists Suggested Melting the Arctic Ice Cap to Stop a New Ice Age
Proposals to use geoengineering to fight global warming are in the news. Indeed, humans have been intentionally modifying weather for climate control for decades. But geoengineering has not always been thought of as a way to fight global warming …
In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, scientists and presidents considered geoengineering to stop a new iceage and create more warming.
On April 28, 1975, Newsweek wrote an article stating:
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
Here is a reprint of the article in the Washington Times, and here is a copy of the 1975 Newsweek article.
Why were scientists considering melting the arctic ice cap?
Because they were worried about a new ice age.
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