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Sulfer particles not a wiser option to reduce warming: Study

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Scientists, to fight against global warming, seem to be up with arms with all innovations. In a bid to venture newer avenues, they are in support for any sun-rays blocking methods.

This is well revealed by the suggestion to pump in sulfur particles high into the atmosphere. True, it will cut the sun rays from entering the earth to a considerable extend, but what about health hazards and other environmental ill-effects the sulfer particles will bring in the long run?

So, mimicking volcanoes to fight global warming has been rejected altogether by a group of scientists saying this would buy a very little time for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This simulation of a massive volcano’s effect, though may help cool the planet by blocking the sun rays, will eventually not serve its purpose – as the sulfur particles would also reduce rainfall, leading to serious drought across the world.

Co-author of the study, Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado said,

It is a Band-Aid fix that does not work.

But, this controversial study is just to add a bit more fuel to the existing fire, as cuing the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991, particles it threw into the atmosphere caused a global cooling effect by reflecting back sunlight, but no one had, until now, been able to pin down its effect on rainfall.

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