Deploying giant space mirrors and spraying particles from stadium-sized balloons may sound like an engineer's wild fantasy, but cliamte models suggest that the potential of geoengineering to combat rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may be significantly overstated.
Through a variety of computer simulations used for reporting to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the team investigated a scenario where an increase in the world's atmospheric carbon dioxide levels was balanced by a "dimming" of the sun.
By: Joel Winston, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/16/geoengineering-study
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