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Byline: Fred Guterl; With Michael Levitin in Berlin and Sangwon Yoon in New York
As forecasts for global temperatures grow increasingly dire, scientists are taking a serious look at an idea once considered crazy: reengineering the atmosphere.
The sudden explosion of Mount Pinatubo on June 15, 1991, sent a vast column of ash into the sky, blotting out the sun, killing hundreds and demonstrating one way to save humanity from a potential climate disaster.
The mountain's 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide rose from the Philippines into the stratosphere, blanketing the planet in a haze that reflected part of the sun's heat back out into space. Over ...
Source: HighBeam Research, How to Fix a Climate Emergency.(International Edition; GLOBAL WARMING)