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Wild ideas to turn down the Sun

SALT AND AIR

Clouds and bubbles could reflect the light

The simplest ways to reduce sunlight happen at or right above the ocean surface. One involves millions of air bubbles with diameters of 1/500th of a millimetre released from ships to make the ocean surface ‘lighter’. The bubbles change the water’s albedo: the quantity of reflected light (light surfaces have high albedo, dark ones low). Physicist

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