Scientists Propose Creating Clouds to Slow Warming

treehugger.com 21 Aug '12, 8am

Scientists Propose Creating Clouds to Slow Warming

As unusually harsh droughts continue to grip much of the United States, and new record-breaking weather events seem to strike with increasing regularity, the push to find solutions to global warming has never been more urgent -- so much so that even the most unconventional ideas are being given a second look. Scientists from the University of Washington recently unveiled a new take on an old proposal to cool the Earth by artificially producing cloud cover over swaths of ocean to reflect away light, part of a process known as 'marine cloud brightening'. The concept is actually fairly simple: a fleet of boats equipped with sprayers large enough to project particles of sea-salt into the atmosphere where they would facilitate the formation of clouds. The resulting cloud cover, if dense enough, could to reflect enough heat-producing sunlight back into space to lead to cooling a...

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@NickyPatterson » 25 Aug '12, 10am
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@ABradbury12 » 23 Aug '12, 10pm
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@WaterRightsToo » 21 Aug '12, 10pm
Cloud creation fine so long as it is done without tax dollars. [link]
@cintain » 21 Aug '12, 9pm
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@GreenTechPR » 21 Aug '12, 8pm
Scientists are creating artificially-produced clouds in hopes to slow the warming of the Earth: [link] *KD
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@ehochster » 21 Aug '12, 6pm
Still find geoengineering highly terrifying, but small scale tests like this probably makes sense. [link]
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@treehuggeruk » 21 Aug '12, 1pm
RT @jovds: "@DashBurst: Scientists Propose Creating Clouds to Slow Warming [link]" why don't they re-use those many we have in Belgium?