http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120112142232.htm
According to researchers from the University of Manchester, the University of Bristol, and the University of Sandia a bi-radical was discovered in earth's own atmosphere to be able to cool the planet. A bi-radical is a free radical or compound that contains two unpaired electrons. According to the researchers this was done by the chemical itself releasing powerful oxidizers such as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to clean up the pollutants in the atmosphere. This chemical was first hypothesized to exist back in the 1950's, but due to our advancements in technology since then researchers have been able to use a unique apparatus that can rid of particular atoms of the same chemical make-up, but of different arrangements. Over the last 100 years the earths climate temperature has increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius with two-thirds of it coming from the last 30 years.
This does not mean global warming or the idea of global warming will go away anytime soon, but this does mean a step in the right direction towards a much grander scale of fixing our world . If they can find a way to clean up the atmosphere, then our air would be cleaner for people to breath with and greenhouse gases would be less effective than they have been for the past 30 years. I myself don't see it happening anytime soon, but in the future something like this could happen with enough time and research.
These findings and more have been published as a paper in the scientific journal called Science.
According to researchers from the University of Manchester, the University of Bristol, and the University of Sandia a bi-radical was discovered in earth's own atmosphere to be able to cool the planet. A bi-radical is a free radical or compound that contains two unpaired electrons. According to the researchers this was done by the chemical itself releasing powerful oxidizers such as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to clean up the pollutants in the atmosphere. This chemical was first hypothesized to exist back in the 1950's, but due to our advancements in technology since then researchers have been able to use a unique apparatus that can rid of particular atoms of the same chemical make-up, but of different arrangements. Over the last 100 years the earths climate temperature has increased by 0.8 degrees Celsius with two-thirds of it coming from the last 30 years.
This does not mean global warming or the idea of global warming will go away anytime soon, but this does mean a step in the right direction towards a much grander scale of fixing our world . If they can find a way to clean up the atmosphere, then our air would be cleaner for people to breath with and greenhouse gases would be less effective than they have been for the past 30 years. I myself don't see it happening anytime soon, but in the future something like this could happen with enough time and research.
These findings and more have been published as a paper in the scientific journal called Science.
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