Titanium Dioxide : A Counter to Global Warming?

"The world is ending! The world is ending! Run for your lives!" the people shout as they run through the streets. Meteors come crashing to earth as the suns rays themselves bake people alive. But in reality the world is not ending and people are not screaming because the atmosphere has not been destroyed yet. The atmosphere has not vanished from the greenhouse gasses we ignorantly still polute the air with. If the temperature could be stopped from rising then global warming would end.

A new cooler for the environment has been brought to the attention of scientists. Titanium dioxide ,the same ingredient used in sunscreen. By reflecting the suns rays, these particles could be scattered in the air to cool the temperature on the earth, therefore countering global warming. This technique was discovered when sulfur dioxide was powdered into the air by Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines. The temperature was lowered for 2 years after the explosion. Sulfur dioxide is unhealthy for the air so a similar and more effective substance is being used, titanium dioxide.

A major necesity is making sure that the substance is safe for the environment in which you are trying to save and safe for the animals that live in it. Negative effects from titanium dioxide should be minimal for the depth of the layer of titanurm dioxide that would cover the earth is not even a milimeter in depth. In the past several thought to be safe substances litered the air and caused global warming to worsen.

If titanium dioxide is not sent into the atmosphere, our problems won't be solved but, is global warming a problem? Global warming is most certainly not the end of the world. The earth has warmed and cooled many times througout its lifetime and has survived quite well. Plus the amount of heat needed to take down the atomosphere is unthinkable. The earth will eventually adapt to the changes that have occured and continue to forever change in temperature. The more we do to fix global warming the worse it gets.There is no need to infect the air when we could just fix our bad habits.  If we leave the air alone and reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses we emit into the air the world will mend itself. The more we interfere with the atmosphere the worse global warming will become.