In a book titled Can Man Change the Climate? an engineer named Petr Borisov suggested melting the Arctic ice cap with a dam across the Bering Strait. Hundreds of cubic miles’ worth of cold water could then, somehow or other, be pumped from the Arctic Ocean into the Bering Sea, which would draw in warmer water from the North Atlantic and, according to Borisov’s calculations, produce milder winters not just in the polar regions but also in the mid-latitudes. A rendering of the proposed dam across the Bering Strait “What mankind needs is a war against cold, rather than a ‘cold war,’ ” Borisov
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