Scientists Want to Know: Can Table Salt Slow Global Warming? – Arizona Public Media
Article Synopsis – An international team of researchers is studying the potential of table salt to reflect the sun’s energy and temporarily slow global warming. The team has found sodium chloride (table salt) to be “remarkably superior” to aluminum oxide at scattering sunlight. Widespread use of aluminum oxide aerosols in earth’s upper atmosphere has been proposed for solar radiation management to offset greenhouse gases, but researchers say salt would be less harmful to air-breathing organisms than aluminum oxide. To read the actual article click here.