Friday, December 27, 2013

Reducing Sunlight by Geoengineering Will Not Cool Earth

Two biogeochemists found that water simply doesn’t respond to atmospheric heat and solar radiation in the same way. (Credit: Annett Junginger, EurekAlert) Click to enlarge.
Two German scientists have just confirmed that you can’t balance the Earth’s rising temperatures by simply toning down the sunlight.  It may do something disconcerting to the patterns of global rainfall.

Earlier this year a U.S.-led group of scientists ran sophisticated climate models of a geoengineered world and proposed the same thing.  Now Axel Kleidon and Maik Renner of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, have used a different theoretical approach to confirm the conclusion, and explain why it would be a bad idea.

Reducing Sunlight by Geoengineering Will Not Cool Earth

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