Man-Made Aerosols Created to Fight Global Warming

A Cure or a Bigger Problem?

By Beth Benson, published Mar 11, 2008
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The Earth; a big, gorgeous blue marble that is teeming with wildlife, thriving ecosystems, and paradise-like sights. The water crystal clear, the sky as shocking pure blue, and stunning plant life...then man evolved into a technological and industrial being which caused many areas' skies to blacken, crystal clear waters to loose their luster, plant life cut down and wildlife forced out to make room for manmade structures.

This major change to the Earth's atmosphere began the realization of global warming, the greenhouse effect, and climate change. Global warming is considered the raise of the normal temperature of the Earth's near surface air and oceans in the last few decades. The Greenhouse effect still deals with the warming of the planet, but the greenhouse effect is when the warming process is done by emissions of infrared radiation by the atmosphere. The term climate change goes hand in hand with global warming and the greenhouse effect because both of those processes contribute to climate change, which are the long term significant changes in the weather.

So why am I defining these terms for you? Because global warming is getting out of hand and since man has been one of the key causes of it, man is now trying to find a way to fight global warming by unleashing aerosols into the atmosphere. The troposphere is the lowest part of our atmosphere closest to us and is primarily made of natural aerosols and water vapor. Natural aerosols are just fine particles of solids and liquids that are floating in a gas form. Volcanoes are mostly associated with these aerosols.

Takeaways
  • The troposphere is the lowest part of our atmosphere.
  • Volcanic eruptions place a huge part in reflecting the sun's radiation back into space.
Did You Know?
The idea looming is to use giant guns or balloons to inject the five million tons of aerosols every year into the stratosphere.
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