Discovery News – September 13, 2010
Every day seems to bring another bad piece of news about global warming. Just this month, we found out the oceans are saltier than ever and 2010 will probably be the warmest on record, so it’s clear that we have a serious problem on our hands.
A solution that some scientists have been touting is so-called “geoengineering,” which we’ve written about before. Basically, that means it’s not enough for us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions alone to fight global warming. Rather, we have to engineer the Earth’s atmosphere to deal with more carbon dioxide and methane than it’s equipped to handle.