Scientists find new hack to deal with a warming planet; Here's how

So, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA figure if they can just inject ice high up in the air, water vapour in the upper atmosphere would get a bit drier and that could counteract a small amount of the human-caused warmth..

At its maximum, injecting 2 tons a week, it could conceivably take out enough water vapor to reduce heating a small amount, about 5 per cent of the overall warming created by carbon from the burning of fossil fuel, Schwarz said..

. Purposely tinkering with Earth's atmosphere to fix climate change is likely to create cascading new problems, said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver, who wasn't part of the study..

He said the engineering side of this makes sense, but he compared the concept to a children's story where a king who loves cheese is overrun with mice, gets cats to deal with the mice, then dogs to chase away the cats, lions to get rid of the dogs and elephants to eliminate the lions and then goes back to mice to scare off the elephants..

At the UN environment assembly, nations are considering a resolution to study solar radiation modification essentially putting particles in the air to reflect sunlight and cool the atmosphere and possible regulations on countries or companies that would do it..

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