Scientist: Inject Sulfur Into Atmosphere to Battle Global Warming

[NYer]

Injecting sulfur into the second atmospheric layer closest to Earth would reflect more sunlight back to space and offset greenhouse gas warming, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

Crutzen suggests carrying sulfur into the atmosphere via balloons and using artillery guns to release it, where the particles would stay for up to two years. The results could be seen in six months.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/060727_inject_sulfur.html

[Atlas]

:eek:

[Ethyl]

:mad_12: :mad_07:

[kotzi]

Injecting sulfur into the second atmospheric layer closest to Earth would reflect more sunlight back to space and offset greenhouse gas warming, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

Crutzen suggests carrying sulfur into the atmosphere via balloons and using artillery guns to release it, where the particles would stay for up to two years. The results could be seen in six months.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/060727_inject_sulfur.html

Let's try that at the MPI first, see how that works ...

Sulfur is easily oxidized to produce sulfuric acid etc. I am doubtful he has hard data on the interaction of sulfur with oxidizing agents in the atmosphere, besides his modeling.

[Omega]

I don't like the sounds of this.