How Much Would It Cost to Move the Earth and Fix Climate Change?

Rhett Allain
7 min readJun 11, 2021
Photo: Rhett Allain. Sunrise in Louisiana.

I wish I could say this wasn’t true — but it’s true. A congressman proposed the following idea: what if we could fix climate change by moving the Earth’s orbit?

I told you it was true. Check it out.

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.