The May 14, 2012, issue of The New Yorker is the “innovators” issue, with articles about the rise of drones in the United States, an artificial leaf that mimics the way plants convert solar energy, and a look at the promises and risks of geoengineering our way out of global warming. Plus, a beautiful cover by Bob Staake.
In “The Climate Fixers” (p. 96), Michael Specter looks at the possible benefits and risks of “geoengineering,” the attempt to ameliorate global warming by deliberately altering the climate of the earth. For years, “even to entertain the possibility of human intervention on such a scale . . . has been denounced as hubris,” Specter writes. “Predicting long-term climatic behavior by using computer models has proved di?cult, and the notion of ?ddling with the planet’s climate based on the results generated by those models worries even scientists who are fully engaged in the research.”
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