Thursday, August 16, 2012

Rules Lacking for Geoengineering Projects for Global Warming

LiveScience: What if someone wanted to deploy a massive project to try to reverse climate change today? Perhaps some researchers wanted to spray sulfur particles into the stratosphere to reflect away some of the sun's energy, cooling the Earth in an attempt to compensate for global warming. Or perhaps a group wanted to unload some fertilizer into the ocean, so more algae will grow and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Their actions may have global consequences, but would such projects have to answer...

URL: http://news.yahoo.com/rules-lacking-geoengineering-projects-global-warming-051818967.html

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