Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 19, 2014 @08:56AM from the or-we-could-make-an-ocean-sized-mirror dept.

Rambo Tribble writes: Scientists from the University of Leeds have proposed that brighter ships' wakes, created by reducing their component bubbles' sizes, could moderately increase the reflectivity of our oceans, which would have a cooling effect on the climate. The technology is touted as being available and simple, but there could be side effects, like wetter conditions in some regions. Still, compared to many speculative geoengineering projects, "The one advantage about this technology — of trying to generate these tiny 'micro-bubbles' — is that the technology does already exist," according to Leeds' Prof Piers Forster.

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Expect the Republicans to ban soap... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-19 09:37 · Score: -1, Troll

because you can mix it with water and make bubbles. They stand against anything that doesn't boil the earth. They hate children and want our grandchildren to boil and die. That is the way of their kind.