Radical plan to ‘dim’ the Sun among best options to protect Earth from potentially historic El Niño season: scientists
They’re literally proposing we steal its sunshine. Researchers at UC San Diego have floated a wildly controversial plan to combat the looming super El Niño threat — injecting particles into clouds to turn down the sun.
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They’re literally proposing we steal its sunshine. Researchers at UC San Diego have floated a wildly controversial plan to combat the looming super El Niño threat — injecting particles into clouds to turn down the sun. The radical sunscreen proposal was detailed in a study in the journal Science Advances. “SG (solar geoengineering) could theoretically be leveraged to mitigate extreme events by instead targeting compounding seasonal-to-multiyear events such as El Niño,” wrote the researchers, who were led by UC San Diego climate scientist Kate Ricke.
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Radical plan to ‘dim’ the Sun among best options to protect Earth from potentially historic El Niño season: scientists
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