Rebooting the Ecosystem

Global warming is real. We did it. Now it's time to talk about repairs.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are at the highest they've been in at least 800,000 years. Greenland's ice sheet is melting fast.

Writing in the journal Climate Change, Crutzen, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for work examining ozone depletion, described a plan to shoot massive quantities of sulfur into the stratosphere. In theory, the sulfur would reflect sunlight – just as particles blown into the air by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo did in 1991 – cooling Earth and buying enough time for civilization to shift into green gear.

Crutzen's scheme would mean we'd have to start loving smog – but imagine the psychedelic sunsets!)

Yes, these ideas sound crazy. But we're in the earliest stages of what is potentially the single most crucial new science in history. Let's give the researchers a minute or two to get their PowerPoint slides in order and, more important, grab a slice of the admittedly modest budget for climate-change research


Read the whole article here. Read it while listening Scott Matthews' "Earth to Calm" song.

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Geraldine Gonzalez

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