The UK wants to know: “Can a garden hose to the stratosphere really keep the planet cool?” The experiment… is meant as a test of a proposed geoengineering technique for offsetting the warming effects of greenhouse gases. If the balloon and hose can handle the water’s weight and pressure, similar pipes rising 20 kilometers could pump tons of reflective aerosols into the stratosphere. Why don’t they just give Al Gore an enema, feed him a bunch of tacos and point his butt skyward? We would also point out that it may be a lot easier to cool the planet than it will be to warm it back up when they finally figure out this AGW stuff is all Gore-sh*t.
