getting hotter, causing not only record heatwaves but fierce storms and flooding. Scientists say that up to 70% of the Earth’s animal and plant species could be extinct by the end of the century.
And we could be among them. Global temperatures are rising at a rate not seen since the last ice age, roughly 125,000 years ago.The change is hard to ignore.
After June’s temperatures in the UK hit a blistering 32.7ºC, the bookies have slashed odds from 6/1 to just 4/1 on this month being the hottest July on record.But a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] has proposed a radical solution to cool the globe back down; a space parasol made of bubble wrap.READ MORE: Extreme weather 'here to stay' as deadly storms set to worsen, top scientists warnTo be fair, it’s a bit more complicated than that.
The team at MIT’s Senseable City Lab, explain that we could potentially reverse the global warming trend by deflecting around 1.8% of the energy coming from the Sun.Previous studies have looked at injecting dust or some other reflective substance into the Earth’s atmosphere to deflect sunlight, but all of those schemes carry an extra risk.
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