Hot Air On Hot Air: Can Technology Fix Global Warming?  Mad
scientists vs. global warming  | Mon Jul. 16, 2007 11:00 PM GMT
Can technology fix global warming? Scientists are starting to
pitch some pretty far-out ideas, including these:    1.
PROPOSAL: Use a fleet of blimps to pour up to 4 million tons of
sulfur dioxide, which reflects solar radiation, into the
stratosphere each year.     REALITY CHECK: And you thought
weather balloons messed with the ufo crowd.   2. PROPOSAL:
Position 20 million tons of reflectors between Earth and the
sun, 932,000 miles away.     REALITY CHECK: International Space
Station—just 240 miles away—will cost more than $100 billion.
3. PROPOSAL: Cover oceans with white Styrofoam beads.
REALITY CHECK: Marine life and Styrofoam don't mix.   4.
PROPOSAL: Put anti-gas drugs in cow feed to reduce burps laden
with methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more powerful than CO2.
REALITY CHECK: This is actually Scotland.   5. PROPOSAL: Launch
fleet of solar-powered satellites that will