Spray salt into the sky to prevent storms

The technique of spraying salt water into clouds above the ocean will reduce the power of storms and may even prevent their formation.

Some previous studies have shown that the higher the temperature on the ocean surface, the stronger the storm. Because the scientific world predicts storms will become stronger as global temperatures rise due to climate change.

Livescience said, Alan Gadian, a researcher at Leeds University in England, thinks that spraying salt water will make clouds above the ocean become brighter. The higher the brightness of the cloud, the more sunlight they reflect back into the universe, thereby reducing the ocean surface temperature. The lower the ocean surface temperature, the lower the strength of the storms.

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Fluctuating by storms.

Spraying chemicals into clouds is a technique that has been applied in many countries for a long time to prevent or promote the formation of rain. China used to spray chemicals into the clouds to prevent rain during the opening and closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

'If you want to reduce the temperature at the two ends of the globe, you have to cool the regions in the equator. Polarity absorbs heat from the equator through the atmosphere and the ocean , 'Gadian said.

The biggest challenge of the research team is that people have never tested chemical spraying techniques to increase the brightness of clouds. However, they will try to do such a test in the near future by using some ships to spray tiny particles of salt into the cloud on an area of ​​100 km 2 .

Gadian and colleagues say spraying chemicals into the cloud of the volcanic layer could also slow the earth's warming. This effect will be evident at the two poles - which are suffering from the effects of climate change. Even so, the team said it was not an effective solution to prevent global warming.