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Paul Crutzen , Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry in 1995, of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, suggests infusing the stratosphere (above the troposphere and directly below the mesosphere, it has a stratified temperature) with particles of Sulphur which could reflect back the Sun’s ray’s. His views are published in the journal Climate Change. Crutzen’s theory would work like the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, which send large sulfur-rich clouds into the atmosphere.



Even with nation’s working towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, extreme measures like this may become necessary to give more time. But a lot of people disagree with touching the natural balance, skeptics abound towards Geo-Engineering . The scientist himself hopes such a stage would not arise. Positive end would be brilliant sunrises and sunsets on the horizon and negative might result in raining Sulphur.



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Thanks: Kate Ravilious



Via : National Geographic