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The Soviet Scientist Who Dreamed of Melting the Arctic with a 55 Mile Dam

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As much as we worry about climate change today, a warm, melted Arctic was actually a dream of geoengineers since at least the 19th century.

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard Spring ice clogs up the Bering Strait, via George Riggs, NASA GSFC As much as we worry about climate change today, a warm, melted Arctic was actually a dream of geoengineers since at least the 19th century. But at the height of the Cold War, a Soviet scientist named Petr Mikhailovich Borisov proposed what may be the most ambitious Arctic melting project ever conceived: a dam spanning the 55 mile Bering Strait that would be big enough to redirect the curr

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