Here ’s the plan : A jumbo garden hose 12.4 miles long , tethered to a ship and attached to a 650 - foot ( about two football field of operation ) balloon , which will pump out hundreds of tons of chemical substance particles into the stratosphere to mimic a volcano .
Why ? Because even though a volcano is red-hot , thevolcanic ash reflects sunlight . Scientists desire to mimic that action to combat increase global temperature .
So researchers in the United Kingdom are testing out their theory in October with a small plate gimmick that will just pump out water at a lower height . They say it wo n’t convert the weather but will be trial impression of their concept .
One of the scientist , Oxford ’s Hugh Hunt , is excited about the hose . “ The overnice affair about it is that we can really have a knob , if you like , which we can control to adjust the rate at which we put in these particles . ”
Quite nice indeed !
But not everyone thinks so . Some environmentalist say it ’s “ harebrained . ”
“ This is a huge waste of time and money and shows the UK government ’s disregard for UN processes . It is the first dance step in readying the hardware to inject particle into the stratosphere . It has no other intent and it should not be allowed to go ahead , ” Pat Mooney , electric chair ofETC Groupin Canada , told The Guardian .
The schema does n’t address the increase carbon copy dioxide in the atmosphere , which some say is a bigger problem than the rising temperature , because excess atomic number 6 dioxide increase sea acidity .
Sir Martin Rees , the former president ofRoyal Society(which is funding the work with a $ 2.6 million grant ) , powerfully supports the balloon approach as a plan B to reduce greenhouse natural gas emissions .
If it works , awesome , because it ’s pretty clear that changing human behaviour is even harder than ramp up a giant balloon attached to a miles - long hosepipe convenience .
[ The GuardianviaPhysOrg ; figure : Shutterstock / Pavel Svoboda ]
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