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Posted Tue Dec 30 2008: from Discovery News:
Sprayed Aerosols Could Ease Climate Woes http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1230668402
It won't solve global warming, but a group of scientists are calling for a focused research program to investigate ways to seed the atmosphere with chemicals that would let the heat out -- literally... David Keith, with the University of Calgary's Energy and Environmental Systems Group ... and colleagues want to investigate putting aerosols, such as sulfur, into the atmosphere to chemically unlock the greenhouse effect and allow more of the sun's reflected heat to radiate back into space. "This brings up the question of who would make that decision," said Alan Robock of Rutgers University. And what temperature the world should be. "A ski slope operator and someone running a shipping company in the Arctic might have different opinions about what's the ideal temperature for the planet," NASA's administrator Michael Griffin told Discovery News in an interview last year.
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