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Giant Helium Balloons Could Stop Global Warming

Mike Sandru — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:42:14 +0000

Scientists at Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Edinburgh Universities have recently developed a Wembley Stadium-sized helium balloon, tethered to a ship that is expected to reduce or even stop global warming. The working principle is as follows: the 660 ft-long balloon will pump in the atmosphere millions of tons of water mixed with salts, clay, sulphates […]

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Converting Deserts Into Forests Would Stop Global Warming

Mike Sandru — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:02:15 +0000

Researcher Leonard Ornstein has come up with a simple plan to stop global warming. He proposes that turning Sahara and the Australian outback into vast, shady forests, could draw down about 8 billion tons of carbon a year, nearly as much as people emit from burning forests and fossil fuels today.

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Throwing Chemicals Into The Air – Solution to Global Warming?

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:45:21 +0000

Certain bright minds say we should throw trillions of mirrors into space to slow global warming. It doesn't seem like a bad idea at a first glance, but other enlightened thoughts say we should release chemicals into the air to do just that.

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