Register: Climate boffins now reckon that solar geoengineering could be done safely by targeting specific regions. Solar geoengineering basically works by reflecting sunshine back into space, thereby offsetting global warming. Scientists would pump aerosols into the stratosphere or create low altitude marine clouds to scatter solar heat from the Earth. But geoengineering has a whole host of potential side effects, where, for instance, attempting to eradicate the effects of climate change has different...
URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/22/geoengineering_could_work/
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