A strategy to cool the planet using stratospheric aerosol injection is being tested in the field by a pair of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
High up in the hills near Silicon Valley, a controversial mission involving a weather balloon will soon take flight.Inside a trailer on a blistering hot day, Luke Iseman and Andrew Song are busy preparing the instrumentation to attach to the balloon. Iseman and Song are the co-founders of a startup called Make Sunsets.Song then went outside and unfurled a balloon and began to fill it up from two gas canisters.'Go ahead and start it slowly,' instructed Iseman.
The concept behind the method is based on the planet cooling effects of volcanic eruptions. A good example is the massive 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.It injected 15 million tons of sulfur dioxide aerosols into the stratosphere, dropping temperatures around the world.'Pinatubo actually cooled the earth by about three tenths of a degree Celsius or half a degree Fahrenheit for several years after the eruption,' said Dr.
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