Believe it or not, a team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, has come up with a new theory to fight global warming, to flash fields of shiny crops and disperse global warming. The field of corps would act like mirrors to reflect the heat back. All this came to surface with the researchers meeting at a special geoengineering session of the American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco.
This new theory talks about the reverse temperature that shinier corps reflect. It is true that the areas that have much green are colder than other areas. So, it means growing shinier crops would reduce heat by 1.9ºC. ‘Albedo’ or heat of earth reflecting sunlight back will help in reducing the heat that earth is capturing now as the result of decreasing Artic polar ice cap.
The researchers also talk about creating huge sunshades and artificial volcanoes in case the green house gases are not controlled in the near future. Chris Doughty, Dept. Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, called for reversing the regional warming by manipulating albedo of the land. However, it is difficult for the counties falling close to the equator to depend on the theory or reversing temperature by planting reflecting corps. An extra-hairy variety of soya, used to fight pests, reflect sunlight up to 5% back. Soya is mainly planted in Brazil, Argentina and the US more than other countries.
This seminar also saw researchers suggesting different ways of reducing global heat, say for example rather painting everything white to reflect back the heat, we can grow broad leafed trees. Again returning from where we started, planting trees to help the planet.
Back to square one!
Via: Nextenergynews
