Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath

cremeglace writes "A Harvard University physicist has come up with a new way to cool parts of the planet: pump vast swarms of tiny bubbles into the sea to increase its reflectivity and lower water temperatures. 'Since water covers most of the earth, don't dim the sun,' says the scientist, Russell Seitz, speaking from an international meeting on geoengineering research. 'Brighten the water.' From ScienceNOW: 'Computer simulations show that tiny bubbles could have a profound cooling effect. Using a model that simulates how light, water, and air interact, Seitz found that microbubbles could double the reflectivity of water at a concentration of only one part per million by volume. When Seitz plugged that data into a climate model, he found that the microbubble strategy could cool the planet by up to 3C. He has submitted a paper on the concept he calls “Bright Water" to the journal Climatic Change.'"

Comments

Re:Armed Revolt? Really?

[timmarhy]

actually it's not shell, Exon or Mobile that are the CO2 emmiters, it's people like you driving their car to work and using electricity. so feel free to revolt against modern convienence anytime. i cringe when ever i hear about hair brained schemes to cool the planet. If people are honest, we don't even have a handle on what the current temperature trends mean or how they will play out or whats REALLY causing them. they have a hypothesis that it's CO2.

Re:Tiny Bubbles

[CorporateSuit]

There's a reduntard mod on the loose today. I got marked "Redundant" when I answered a question someone asked about my post.