Back in the 1970's, scientists came up with genetic engineering, which is transfering genes from one species to another. Today, scientists came up with geoengineering. Geoengineering is a way to fight climate-change by doing regulatory framework on the oceans and the atmosphere. They believe that this would be a more effecient way than by reducing greenhouse emmissions. There are two main ideas of geoengineering. One is to reduce the amount of incoming sunlight that the planet absorbs. The other is to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and put it somewhere else. How would they be able to control the sun? Two ideas: one is to send plumes of various sulphurous fluids in the stratosphere, to find out which would best produce a haze of small particles similar to those that cool the planet after a large volcanic eruption. So when they figured out which fluids would get the job done the best, they would then store them for further use. The second idea is to send tiny salt particles into the clouds; this would whiten the clouds which would make them produce smaller droplets. Apparently the smaller the droplets, the less light can be emitted.
Though these are thoughtful, scientific ideas, the scientists believe that people will not trust these ideas and therefore will not be able to experiment. Hopefully they will be able to at least experiment before it is too late.
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