One recent study estimated it would take 6,700 business jet flights per day — outfitted with
spraying equipment — to keep enough
aerosols in the
stratosphere to cool the climate by one degree Celsius.
The failure to actually reduce global emissions has meant that all possibilities are now on the table, including some that sound like premises from a science - fiction novel: Humans could sequester carbon dioxide by removing it from the air through technologies that mimic trees, or we could
spray water droplets
in the lower atmosphere to reflect light and heat back to space, or we could seed sulfur
aerosols in the
stratosphere to do the same.