Guardian: A controversial geoengineering experiment to simulate the cooling effect of volcanoes has been cancelled due to concern over a perceived conflict of interest with some of the researchers. The experiment would have injected 150 litres of water into the atmosphere from a weather balloon via a 1km pipe tethered to a ship as part of the Spice project (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering). Matthew Watson, a scientist at Bristol University and the principal investigator of Spice,...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/16/geoengineering-experiment-cancelled
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/pictures/2011/08/31/SPICEpipebaloon2.gif
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