Fighting the Greenhouse Effect with One Giant Sulfur Cloud

Vikingod · Nov 27, 2006, 01:53 PM

Source: DailyTech
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Two top climatologists, Dutch Nobel Prize-winner Paul J. Crutzen and senior U.S. government climatologist Tom Wigley, recently proposed a radical method to cool the earth in the event it gets too hot: A giant sulfur cloud, expelled across the atmosphere.

Crutzen, who fathered the idea, said it is “meant to startle the policy makers” into taking action against global warming -- specifically in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. He thinks a giant sulfur cloud is not needed now, but that 25 years down the road, it may be. Crutzen was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1995 for work regarding the formation and composition of the ozone.

Nov 27, 2006, 01:53 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Fighting the Greenhouse Effect with One Giant Sulfur Cloud Source: DailyTech __________ Two top climatologists, Dutch Nobel Prize-winner Paul J. Crutzen and senior U.S. government climatologist Tom Wigley, recently proposed a radical method to cool the earth in the event it gets too hot: A giant sulfur cloud, expelled across the atmosphere. Crutzen, who fathered the idea, said it is “meant to startle the policy makers” into taking action against global warming -- specifically in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. He thinks a giant sulfur cloud is not needed now, but that 25 years down the road, it may be. Crutzen was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1995 for work regarding the formation and composition of the ozone.