Brightening Clouds With Microscopic Sea Salt Particles Could Weaken Super El Niños in the Future
Researchers say marine cloud brightening could temporarily cool the Pacific and cut Super El Niño impacts by about 40%, according to simulations.
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Dimming the sun sounds unhinged, but this new study on El Niño makes a surprisingly good case for it
Deliberately brightening Pacific clouds could weaken a Super El Niño's worst effects by up to 40%, according to a study that's turning heads even among cautious scientists.
Scientists say dimming the sun could spark global chaos
Scientists are taking the once-radical concept of dimming the sun through stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) seriously, but a Columbia University team warns that reality is far messier than models suggest. Their study reveals how physical, geopolitical, and economic constraints could derail even the best-intentioned attempts to cool the planet. From unpredictable monsoon disruptions to material shortages and optical inefficiencies, every step…
Selective whitening of marine clouds is a geoengineering procedure that, applied in the south-east of the Pacific Ocean, could theoretically mitigate an emerging El Niño phenomenon if applied at the outset, according to a model-based study, although it warns that it could have unforeseen effects on La Niña.
A study published this week in Science Advances magazine suggests that, theoretically, it would be possible to stop the El Niño phenomenon by using a cloud whitening technique that implies selectively increasing its brightness. The idea, led by researchers from the University of California in San Diego (USA), is just a proof of concept, but ... Continue reading "Study suggests that the El Niño phenomenon could be stopped by whitening the clouds"…
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