Author: repulsewarrior
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:27 am (GMT 3)
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Extraordinary ideas for extraordinary circumstances
By Elias Hazou
A NOBEL Prize-winning scientist has drawn up an emergency plan to save the world from global warming, by altering the chemical makeup of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Noble Prize in 1995 for his work on the destruction of the ozone layer, believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical alternative is needed.
The Netherlands-born professor was on the island this week for a workshop on “Climate change: causes and impacts” organised by the Cyprus Institute, a research foundation.
In a polemical scientific essay published two years ago, Crutzen suggested an “escape route” if global warming begins to run out of control.
He has proposed a method of artificially cooling the global climate by releasing particles of sulphur in the upper ...
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