How Can Science Save the Planet Today!

The Chinese government promised and delivered a rain free opening ceremony to the delight of thousands in attendance and millions watching around the world. During the rainy season how did they do this? Simple, they seeding storm clouds with iodide before they blew into the capital city causing the rain to fall long before they reached Bejing.

Sound extreme? When it comes to technology triumphing over climate this is just the tip of the iceberg. Welcome to the 21st century and welcome to one of the hottest environmental debates about the planet right now, geoengineering.

Geoengineering is defined as the deliberate modification of Earth's environment on a large scale "to suit human needs and promote habitability"

Many geoengineering ideas sound like plots straight from 60’s sci-fi films such as launching mirrors into orbit to reflect the suns rays away from earth to seeding the ocean with iron oxide to to decrease greenhouse gases.

Now that a vast majority of the scientific community has agreed that global warming exists one goeengineering idea has began gaining widespread acceptance, and also gaining detractors, is launching tons of sulfur dioxide into the earths upper atmosphere. The Sulfar dioxide once in earths upper atmosphere will cause a chemical reaction that will partially deflect the suns rays , effectively and immediately halting global warming.

This idea was first proposed in 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson’s science advisory committee, which offered one solution to climate change, reflect sunlight away from earth.

While sulfur dioxide is seen as an approach that would have an immediate impact on global warming it also has drawbacks that many see this method as a last resort. Estimates show that it would cost 1 Billion dollars to launch the sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere and depending on the altitude it would only last 1-2 years before it would need to be reintroduced. Additionally, potentially harmful side effects could result such as acid rain and ...

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[BeAnEarthNut]

the worst is yet to come, now they are experimenting with Plan to Dump Iron dust in Ocean should be Criticized

[BeAnEarthNut]

dose any one realize this has been going on from as far back as the Vietnam war, and has ben experimenting with starting back in 1986 more after 96 why do you think more people dont think there is a green house problem.

[bb112266]

Pollution starts with individuals. It has nothing to do with science. We have to think right before can act right. Changes from the mind can do more than a outward solution.

[quevao]

can we just use science to stop with pollution?

[RenewablePlanktonGen]

This clip equivocates ocean iron fertilization (a concept developed over the last 10-15 years, with anticipated collateral benefits of oceanic food chain replenishment and reversal of ocean acidification) to a "plot from a 1960s sci-fi movie", while promoting seeding the stratosphere with sulfur dioxide (an actual idea from the 1960s, with global acid rain as a direct and foreseeable result) as a logical and reasonable idea.

Suggest a balanced presentation of iron fertilization as future topic.