On the frontiers of geoengineering

A relatively recent article in the Economist (“Into the great wide open,” 13 December 2014) describes forthcoming experiments that might be used to modify earth’s climate.

If, for example, low-lying maritime clouds — that is, clouds over Earth’s oceans — could be made just a tiny bit brighter, thus reflecting sunlight back into space, terrestrial temperatures could be sufficiently lowered to compensate for any warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.  And the technological means for doing so may well be at hand.

I find such experimental developments fascinating.

On a related topic — perhaps I’ll post something more extensive about this in the future — I’m intrigued by the suggestion some have made that the early chapters of Genesis may reflect divine engineering, or “terraforming,” more than “creation” in the traditional sense.