First Actual Photo of a Lightning Bolt Being Directed by a Laser. It's Possible to Steer Freakin' Lightning with Freakin' Lasers. Offshore Wind Farms Could Knock Down Hurricanes. Solar radiation management. Removing trees from snowy landscapes can help reflect more sunlight into space[1] at latitudes that have meaningful incoming solar energy in the winter. A study by Lenton and Vaughan suggest that marine cloud brightening and stratospheric sulfate aerosols are each capable of reversing the warming effect of a doubling of the level of CO2 in the atmosphere (when compared to pre-industrial levels).[4] Background[edit] The phenomenon of global dimming is widely known, and is not necessarily a climate engineering technique. It occurs in normal conditions, due to aerosols caused by pollution, or caused naturally as a result of volcanoes and major forest fires.
By intentionally changing the Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, scientists propose that we could reflect more heat back out into space, or intercept sunlight before it reaches the Earth through a literal shade built in space. These climate engineering projects have been proposed in order to reduce global warming. Limitations[edit] Weekends are wetter. Thursday, August 6, 1998 Published at 09:35 GMT 10:35 UK Sci/Tech Weekends are wetter: official Forecasting the weather may become easier The feeling that it always rains at weekends may be more than just a myth about the weather. New research shows weekends are wetter. "We knew that cities have an effect on local weather with urban heat islands and so forth, and people are pretty sure that we're having a general global effect with carbon dioxide," said Dr Randall Cerveny of Arizona State University.
"But nobody had ever looked at the in-between area of large-scale regional weather. Together with Robert Balling, Dr Cerveny examined rainfall in the Atlantic Ocean between 1979 and 1995 by analysing global satellite data. As expected the ocean as a whole was unaffected by which day of the week it was. But they found that the results were very different closer to the shore. The region just off the heavily populated east coast of the US was soaked at weekends.