University of Melbourne: The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Is it time to engineer the climate?
„In the absence of a sudden and rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions, recovery options are few and tenuous.[nbsp] In fact, that’s a generous assessment.[nbsp] We have basically reached the point where anything that provides a glimmer of hope is “worth a crack”. One such proposal is to cool the ocean around the reef by “brightening” clouds overhead. [nbsp]Modelling and measurements indicate that increasing cloud cover and density would reduce water temperatures around the reef, although whether the effect is sufficient to arrest coral bleaching is uncertain.“