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We Could Stop Global Warming This Fix But Probably Terrible Idea
2015-03-27 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Back in the late 1990s, Ken Caldeira set out to disprove the "ludicrous" idea that we could reverse global warming by filling the sky with chemicals that would partially block the sun. A few years earlier, Mount Pinatubo had erupted in the Philippines, sending tiny sulfate particles--known as aerosols--into the stratosphere, where they reflected sunlight back into space and temporarily cooled the planet. Some scientists believed that an artificial version of this process could be used to cancel out...
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