"Albedo Yachts" and Marine Clouds: A Cure for Climate Change?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 15:21
in Earth & Climate
Here's an idea to cool Earth: make marine clouds into better reflectors of sunlight. After all, clouds already reflect more of the sun's radiation back into space than the amount trapped by human emissions of carbon dioxide. So why not make them even more effective? [More]
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