Geo-Engineering: Quick, Cheap Way to Cool Planet? | via Newsweek.com
From Newsweek’s December 7 Scope. You’ll find it on page 15 sandwiched between a 2 page CVS ad and buried behind 6 more pages of advertising. Yeah, I’d have tried to bury this one too.
Here’s a portion of a new solution for cooling the globe called, “stratospheric aerosol insertion”:
How It Works
Military planes (or helium balloons) spray the stratosphere with sulfur gases, which disperse and oxidize. The particles scatter back into space some of the sunlight that would have been absorbed by the planet’s surface. As more sunlight is deflected, the planet cools. It’s like an artificial version of an erupting volcano.
Hmmm… I can still remember when the introduction of aerosol into the atmosphere was the problem, not the solution. Of course, that’s back when the globe was, ehem… cooling.
By the way, Newsweek, your new print mag layout sucks. It’s practically unreadable. I’m practically unsubscribed.