There are a variety of methods and innovative ideas that are present to further better the environment that surrounds us. In Hack The Planet by Eli Kintisch, Kintisch outlines four circumstances: collapsing ice sheets, megadroughts, a catastrophic methane release, and slowing of the global ocean conveyor belt. Geoengineering is the main focus the author elaborates on and how it has, and continues, to impact the world today. Geoengineering is the artificial modification of Earth’s climate systems through two primary ideologies, Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). Climate change is imminent but with man made altering, the process is becoming even more deadlier. In reading this book, it's obvious Kintisch is very …show more content…
Geoengineering was the hope scientists felt was necessary. Altering the planet's brightness and how the sun directly hits was one method incorporated and the other is the removal of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists began to mimic the effects of Mt. Pinatubo where cloud coverage from smoke and gases overwhelmed the air. Aircrafts and jets now release aerosols into the atmosphere at high altitudes in hope to reflect the sun's rays away from Earth or at least have shadow and coverage. Scientists believe that making the ocean, seas and deserts more reflective will also be substantially effective just like the reflective clouds are. Simulations were put in progress to see if anything would occur and their findings were less effective than they initially thought. The process would also need to maintained for centuries because even if carbon emissions were to be stopped completely tomorrow, it would take centuries for the planet to cool down. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate as it is so in order to stop or even slow down the process, it is necessary to galvanize our efforts and force/create an …show more content…
Impacts on regional climate is devastating to though in surrounding areas of natural disasters and intense climate change. Such areas will experience famine, drought, acidification in rain and contamination of drinking water, inability to grow crops and a plethora of lingering effects on wildlife and human beings. Oceanic acidification is a large problem considering that since the Industrial Revolution the acidity in the ocean has increased by 30% and continues to grow because about half of all excess carbon emissions are taken over by the ocean leading to ecosystem malfunctions and