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In a bid to halt the foreboding march of global warming, scientists are exploring the injection of aerosols, or tiny particles, into the atmosphere to
"Our findings show that marine cloud brightening could be more effective as a climate intervention than climate models have suggested previously," said study lead author Ying Chen, an assistant professor in atmospheric science at the University of Birmingham, in aRather than injecting the clouds themselves, the researchers observed a naturally occurring aerosol injection caused by the eruption of a volcano in Hawaii.
To gauge the cooling effect, the researchers measured what's known as radiative forcing, which is essentially the change in energy in the Earth's atmosphere, rather than temperature. The huge boost in cloud coverage resulted in cooling of up to negative 10 Watts per square meter, they found.
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