Scientists envision wild plan to dim the sun to save Earth – BGR

• Scientists published an article discussing the possibility of using particles projected into the atmosphere to reduce sunlight and calm global warming.
• The plan would reduce the chances of a severe drought by up to 90%, the researchers said.
• Global geoengineering could save humanity, or potentially create even more problems.

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Hey, so you know the plot of a disaster or post-apocalyptic movies (like Snowpiercer, for example), where the world gets so hot that scientists take action and actually make the Earth absorb less sunlight, cooling it down? Yeah, it never works, or it works too well, and ultimately Earth is doomed anyway. It’s a fun plot for a movie, but a group of scientists actually seem to be seeing it as a possible solution to ending one of the effects of global warming.

In a new article published in Environmental research letters, researchers led by scientists at the University of Cape Town suggest that the release of reflective particles into Earth’s atmosphere could ultimately prevent the Earth from experiencing devastating droughts due to ongoing climate change. No, this is not a joke.

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The idea – to vomit a specific type of particle into the atmosphere to prevent a certain percentage of sunlight from reaching the surface – may sound like an utterly ridiculous idea, but if we’re talking about preventing a global collapse, we have to be. open to equality. the craziest possibilities. The researchers who wrote this article suggest that by using models from the Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble project, we could potentially reduce the chances of a “Day Zero” drought (the term given to the hypothetical day the world is officially short of. clean water for all of humanity) by 90%.

It’s pretty impressive if it actually worked as expected, but several other issues remain. For example, like Futurism stresses that simply tackling a disaster like a global drought would not solve global warming at all. This would potentially alleviate one of the symptoms of global warming, but it would not actually reverse the damage already done. In fact, it could potentially make matters worse in ways we may not yet fully realize.

Another major obstacle between humanity and global geoengineering is the fact that for such a decision to be made, everyone would have to be on board. A country can’t just go and decide to dim the light for the rest of us without making sure all the countries agree to the decision. Of course, that would likely lead to serious repression from many countries and it is even possible that military conflicts arise when both sides refuse to back down. Trying to save the planet from drought could ultimately trigger another kind of planet-ending catastrophe: nuclear war.

Either way, paper is just that, paper, and there are no plans to put those ideas into motion… yet.