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Another way to cool the globe would be to spray seawater mist from ships up toward low-lying clouds, which would become brighter and reflect more sunlight away from Earth.
And while such an effort would cool the globe, it might do so in ways that disrupt the behavior of the Asian and African monsoons, which provide the water that billions of people need to drink and to grow their food.
So if we can make cirrus thinner still, we'll let out more heat and cool the globe.
That's the conclusion of a new study, which also finds that microscopic particles derived from industrial smokestacks have done little to cool the globe.
"Were such an event to happen on Mars, it could either cool the globe (because of a global ash and aerosol cloud) or warm it (because of erupted greenhouse gases).
So-called geoengineers have proposed sprinkling these regions with iron to foster phytoplankton blooms big enough to consume vast amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and thus cool the globe.
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A solar filter made of sulfate particles may be effective at cooling the globe, but its impact on weather systems, including the Indian monsoon on which a billion people depend for their sustenance, is unclear.
The eruption darkened the skies, cooled the globe by 10˚C for half a decade, and redirected the course of human evolution.
By reflecting some sunlight back to space, that added haze cooled the globe by 1°C for a year or two before dissipating.
Owners concerned with global warming should choose white roofs, which are three times more effective than green roofs at cooling the globe.
Although the natural experiment was a bit backwards--sulfate particles from the eruption cooled the globe--it still offered a way to check the climate models.
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