Hacking the climate could lead to whiter, brighter skies

MSNBC: Blue sky over Arches National Park in Utah. A new study suggests that a geoengineering proposal could make the sky less blue. Pumping a steady stream of sunlight-blocking particles into the stratosphere to fight global climate change would leave us with inescapable hazy and white skies such as those found over big cities, according to new research. "The skies would be whiter/hazier everywhere, including on weekend getaways to the mountains," study lead author Ben Kravitz of the Carnegie Institution...

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Enclosure: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/pip/2012GL051652.shtml