New Study Debunks the Viability of Geoengineering
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But while these methods appear beneficial on paper, a recent study undertaken by the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean research in Germany showed that implementing these techniques could invoke disastrous results, without much in the way of positive outcomes. For example, just the idea of space sunlight reflection would severely alter the world’s rainfall patterns. In addition, all of the proposed geoengineering techniques, when executed on a global scale, only promises to alter temperatures up to 8 percent, maximum.
According to the experts at the Helmholtz Centre, the long-term effects of several of these geoengineering techniques, if they were suddenly stopped, would release carbon into the environment rapidly and set into motion chains of events resulting in planetary warming and other consequences that could not be halted safely.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/25/geoengineering-side-effects-potentially-disastrous-scientists
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