Could This Be The Solution To Climate Change?
By Jim • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Latest Green News
Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers and Australia’s best-known global warming expert, yesterday released a new climate forecast. Since his last major forecast in 2005, he has projected a direr outcome and in turn suggests consideration of radical solutions to the global warming phenomenon, including ˜dimming’ through sulphur.
Professor Flannery spoke at a business and sustainability conference at Parliament House in Australia on Monday. He has brought to national media attention new science results that show how the world is more susceptible to and affected by greenhouse gas emissions; more so than has ever been considered previously. For Flannery, greenhouse gases that are present in the atmosphere today are already having too great an impact, regardless of changes made to emission levels in the future.
“The current burden of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is in fact more than sufficient to cause catastrophic climate change”
Cutting emissions is no longer considered sufficient. We now face the task of how to remove greenhouse gases out of the air with scientific solutions. The need to act is “extremely urgent” and Prof. Flannery has suggested a range of solutions, including dimming via the use of Sulphur.
By inserting sulphur gas into the earth’s stratosphere it would be possible to protect the earth from the sun’s rays and slow global warming, he has predicted. Professor Flannery admitted that this would
“change the colour of the sky” and that there would be risks associated with this process.
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Jim is a full time video games journalist/geek, and the recent birth of his son has made him rethink his entire attitude regarding the environment and the future of the planet. Jim is MYG's resident news hound, so if you have a story please drop him an email.
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