Drastic and Irreversible Climate Geoengineering Worries Scientists

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An American company is already sending balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. NASA is considering flying ice into the atmosphere.

The Earth is too hot and only getting hotter, according to governments and global bodies such as the United Nations; and the efforts to reduce carbon dioxide arenโ€™t having enough of an effect.

โ€œThe world is passing through the 1.5ยฐC ceiling and is headed much higher unless steps are taken to affect Earthโ€™s energy imbalance,โ€ James Hansen, the previous director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warned in January.

Thus, to buy more time, on Feb. 28, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report detailing a solution called โ€œintentional stratospheric dehydration,โ€ or in laymanโ€™s terms, flying planeloads of ice to 58,000 feet and spraying ice particles into the upper atmosphere.

โ€œItโ€™s a very small effect,โ€ said lead author Joshua Schwarz, a research physicist at NOAAโ€™s chemical sciences laboratory. โ€œPure water vapor doesnโ€™t readily form ice crystals. It helps to have a seed, a dust particle, for example, for ice to form around.โ€

The researchers report that by dispersing small particles, or what it calls ice nuclei, into areas of the atmosphere that are both โ€œvery cold and super-saturated with water vapor,โ€ water vapor in the atmosphere will โ€œfreeze-dryโ€ and rain out of the atmosphere as ice crystals, cooling the planet.

The proposal is known as geoengineeringโ€”and NASA and NOAAโ€™s joint plan is far from the only idea thatโ€™s jumped from the pages of science fiction, ร  la the 2013 Hollywood film โ€œSnowpiercer,โ€ to mainstream science.

Istvรกn Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, has turned to essentially geoengineering a giant parasol, or what he calls, a โ€œtethered solar shieldโ€ to shield the Earth from a portion of the sunโ€™s energy.

โ€œAny sunshield works by blocking a small fraction, circa 1โ€“2 percent, of sunlight reaching Earth,โ€ Mr. Szapudi told The Epoch Times. โ€œThis is an almost undetectable amount by looking at the sun, but it would still cool the atmosphere to pre-industrial temperatures according to climate models.

Byย Katie Spence

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