Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA figure if they can just inject ice high up in the air, water vapour in the upper atmosphere would get a bit drier and that could counteract a small amount of the human-caused heating.
WASHINGTON (AP) Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier.
Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier.
Government scientists propose injecting ice high in the upper atmosphere to reduce water vapor, a greenhouse gas, as a potential method to counteract human-caused warming. However, the idea is still in the early stages of research and not currently implementable.
NASA and NOAA have proposed a new method to remove water vapor before it becomes a greenhouse gas in the stratosphere. But some believe the method would cause more problems for Earth.