EcoWatch: Scientists think they know, in principle, how to tame hurricanes and reduce storm surge risks.
All it would take would be a stratosphere full of sulphate aerosols sufficient to dim the sun, lower tropic ocean temperatures and reduce the hazard of the kind of windstorm that hit New York in 2012 and New Orleans in 2005 with devastating consequences.
Hurricanes are likely to impose increasing costs as the planets climate changes. However, there is a little more to the solution than a simple darkening...