Is it time to hack the planet?
solution. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is still a must, they caution, no matter what — but they stress the need to properly understand all the benefits and drawbacks of sunlight blocking before it can be completely discounted.
Another method, known as marine cloud brightening, would seek to turn clouds into giant sun reflectors by adding sea salt aerosols that would increase their brightness, and a similar method called cirrus cloud thinning would diminish the titular clouds to reduce the amount of warming infrared light they retain.
There is simply too great a number of greenhouse gasses like CO2 already in the atmosphere, they say, and the gasses' long shelf life means their quantity won't significantly reduce anytime soon.
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