Solar Geoengineering to Reduce Global Warming-The Outlook Remains Cloudy

• 作者: Sean O'Neill
• 来源期刊: 工程（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: News & Highlights
• 页码范围: 6-9
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

In March 2021,Australia's Great Barrier Reef played host to a rare field test of marine cloud brightening(MCB)technology.Blasting a seawater mist into the air from the aft of a research ves-sel using a turbine outfitted with novel spray nozzles,researchers watched the resulting white plume rise into the sky(Fig.1)[1]. Over the last five years,the Reef has suffered multiple mass bleaching events because of ocean warming caused by climate change[2].The MCB project,led by senior lecturer Daniel Harrison of Southern Cross University,Coffs Harbour,Australia,is part of the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program[3],a government-backed research and development initiative that aims to"develop,test and risk-assess novel interventions to help keep the Reef resilient."