Sentences with phrase «called albedo modification»

While the second option, also called albedo modification, is relatively inexpensive and could quickly lower the planet's temperature, it could have unwanted effects on the Earth's weather pattern, which could potentially bring drought to some regions or be used as a weapon by governments or certain individuals.

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To make up for those shortcomings, the report called for a research program, including smaller scale field trials, whose goal «should be to improve understanding of the range of climate and other environmental effects of albedo modification, as well as understanding of unintended impacts.»

Albedo modification might also work by using aerosols to seed cloud formation in a lower atmospheric layer called the troposphere.

Oliver and I have very different views on the dangers of albedo modification (at least in the next millennium or so); I consider it more a form of geo - vandalism than «geo - poetry» as some of Oliver's fans like to call it.