Cloud geoengineering could help us avoid major climate tipping points - New Scientist
Cloud geoengineering could help us avoid major climate tipping points | New Scientist
We could counteract global warming by increasing the brightness of stratocumulus clouds over the oceans ISS Expedition 34 Crew/NASA
We could counteract global warming by increasing the brightness of stratocumulus clouds over the oceans
ISS Expedition 34 Crew/NASA
Spraying seawater into clouds to cool the planet would reduce the chances of reaching most major climate “tipping points”, but would also increase the risk of East Antarctic glacier collapse and a shift in the West African monsoon.
That’s according to a study by Haruki Hirasawa at the University of Victoria, Canada, and his colleagues, which modelled the effects of marine cloud brightening (MCB), a form of geoengineering that has been proposed to counteract global warming. …
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As the threat of climate change has gone from theoretical to apparent, proposals for a more aggressive attempt at mitigation through geoengineering have gained currency in some scientific corners, drawn skepticism or outright opposition in others. Prospects for geoengineering would likely improve in inverse proportion to prospects for nations to hit their emissions targets to slow, then reverse the warming of the planet.