Climate change by clearing the Arctic from ice

A few decades ago, eminent scientists quite seriously proposed clearing the Arctic of ice in order to permanently change the climate and save the inhabitants of the Northern Hemisphere from winter. In the USSR there were truly crazy projects, the authors of which planned to establish a climate in Siberia similar to that of the central regions of Ukraine.

It is, in particular, about the initiative of Peter Borisov, who in 1959 applied for a “radical improvement of the climate” in the Northern Hemisphere. Borisov proposed blocking the Bering Strait with a dam with giant screw pumps in order to pump out five hundred cubic kilometers of water per day. The scientist said that this will reduce the level of the Arctic basin by about twenty meters per year, which will affect the Atlantic currents. As a result, the climate of the Northern Hemisphere should have become much warmer.

Another similar project in 1966 was presented by a Riga engineer Eugene Pastors, who was inspired by Borisov's ideas. Pastors proposed pushing the ice of the Arctic with the help of two dozen powerful ships, which was supposed to affect the climate.

Already in the seventies of the last century, Soviet scientists realized the meaninglessness of such projects, but initiatives for change continue to exist in our days. Scientists suggest spraying metal powders in the atmosphere, preserving excess carbon dioxide under the Earth, building giant solar umbrellas in orbit, and so on - all in order to achieve local or global changes in the planetary climate.

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