Darken the sun would not be so bad

Easy does it

If we want to prevent the worst effects of global climate change, we must probably stop burning fossil fuels. But in the meantime, many are looking for technological solutions such as geoengineering to ease the burden on the Earth.

These plans, such as the flooding of a material into the atmosphere that would reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the planet, often have side effects, such as changes in precipitation patterns and hurricane formation. However, new encouraging research suggests that a moderate amount of engineering (just a slight change in brightness) could help mitigate the catastrophic effects of a climate change disaster.

Toeing The Gas Pedal

This is apparent from an article published Monday in the newspaper Nature Climate change.

In this study, a team of scientists from Harvard, MIT and Princeton used sophisticated climate models to simulate a version of the Earth's polluted hell, in which the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide is twice as high to that of today. They then attenuated the simulated sun to eliminate half of the global warming caused by the added greenhouse gases.

This is not the most relevant model for today's world because we are more likely to progressively add more carbon to the atmosphere than to double it immediately, but the results of the study confirm the idea that geoengineering could perhaps help us survive.

The best scenario case

More drastic geoengineering models to counteract global warming predict that sunlight attenuation could have catastrophic side effects, such as droughts in parts of Africa or increasingly violent storms . FurtherAnalysis. But because this study took a softer approach, scientists found only a minimal increase in side effects of this type.

Again, the only cure for climate change is probably to decarbonize the global industry. While we are working on this, however, it sounds like a pinch of geoengineering efforts. could help a little too.

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