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Sixty years ago, 快猫短视频 considered exploding bombs in the Arctic Ocean

Sixty years ago, meteorologists were beginning to think about climate change. On 4 December 1958, 快猫短视频 ran a short story on 鈥渁 way in which man might drastically alter the weather鈥�.

Harry Wexler was director of meteorological research at the US Weather Bureau and one of first to write about what we now call geoengineering. We reported on an article he wrote for Science (), which considered 鈥渨hat would happen if ten 鈥榗lean鈥� 10-megaton bombs were detonated in the Arctic Ocean in winter鈥�.

The bombs would 鈥減roduce steam, which would then condense鈥� and form a cloud of ice covering the entire region鈥�. This would have a warming effect, Wexler thought: 鈥淪uch a cloud might reduce by half the loss of heat by radiation from the Earth鈥檚 surface around the Pole.鈥�

Another possible consequence of the giant ice cloud would be 鈥渢o accelerate greatly the disappearance of the Arctic pack ice, and so open up the Arctic to shipping鈥�. Sub-Arctic regions would see an increase in snowfall, and so 鈥済laciers would grow in size and a new Ice Age might begin鈥�.

Wexler was not advocating Arctic explosions, although 快猫短视频鈥榮 story was too short to make this point. And while he did think that climate control was becoming 鈥溾��, Wexler revealed one major motivation for his article in The New York Times. Nuclear weapons testing was at its height in 1958. There were , mainly carried out by the US and USSR, more than twice as many as the year before. Wexler worried that too many might lead to a nuclear winter and thus a new ice age.

And he understood even then that geoengineering would be suggested as a way of tackling climate change. His advice is worth repeating: 鈥淭he full resources of knowledge鈥� must be brought to bear in predicting the results so as to avoid the unhappy situation of the cure being worse than the ailment.鈥�