Interest in Geoengineering Grows

Geoengineering may sound like science fiction to some, but it is attracting brilliant minds and serious money. For example, a firm called Intellectual Ventures, co-founded by Microsoft’s Bill Gates, is sponsoring geoengineering research. This unique branch of technology is generally focused on using man’s ingenuity to improve the climate in general, specific weather conditions or air quality on a grand scale. To a large degree, such research is focused on using new practices to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere.

Over recent years, scientists and engineers have proposed several potential methods for reducing the greenhouse gas effect, cooling the Earth’s temperature, increasing rainfall, decreasing hurricanes or otherwise reengineering the planet. For example, many methods of deflecting solar rays from the Earth, and thus reducing the Earth’s temperature, have been proposed. Suggested methods include sending light-reflecting particles of various types or a vast mist of seawater into the upper atmosphere, reflecting sunlight away before it has an opportunity to cause heat on the ground below.

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