A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming

摘要

Here is the plan. Customize several Gulfstream business jets with military engines and with equipment to produce and dis-rnperse fine dropletsrnof sulfuric acid. Fly the jets up around 20 kilometers-significantly higher than the cruising altitude for a commercial jetliner but still well within their range. At that altitude in the tropics, the aircraft are in the lower stratosphere. The planes sprayrnthe sulfuric acid, carefully controlling the rate of its release. The sulfur combines with water vapor to form sulfate aerosols, fine particles less than a micrometer in diameter.