A series of blog posts investigating fugitive Nazis in Paraguay is up at The Atlantic.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, Germany, history, Nazis, Paraguay
17 July 2009 • 2:20 am 0
Nazis in Paraguay
1 July 2009 • 10:53 am 0
Re-Engineering the Earth
A survey of geo-engineering solutions to climate change, in the July/August Atlantic.
IF WE WERE transported forward in time, to an Earth ravaged by catastrophic climate change, we might see long, delicate strands of fire hose stretching into the sky, like spaghetti, attached to zeppelins hovering 65,000 feet in the air. Factories on the ground would pump 10 kilos of sulfur dioxide up through those hoses every second. And at the top, the hoses would cough a sulfurous pall into the sky. At sunset on some parts of the planet, these puffs of aerosolized pollutant would glow a dramatic red, like the skies in Blade Runner. During the day, they would shield the planet from the sun’s full force, keeping temperatures cool—as long as the puffing never ceased. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, Dallas Morning News, science
