A group of astrophysicists have proposed a brilliantly difficult way to fight climate change and it relies on a moon dust shield.
As the climate crisis continues to worsen, scientists and researchers around the world have been looking for ways to curb the effects and mitigate the damage. Now, three astrophysicists have proposed a plan to create a moon dust shield by mining and shooting bits of moon dust into space.
The plan might sound a bit out of this world — sorry for that one — but it could potentially obscure the Sun’s rays by 1.8 percent, which is roughly equal to six days of sunlight each year. The moon dust shield would lower Earth’s temperature, as well, helping combat global warming.
But, to pull off those kinds of numbers, humans would need to mine roughly 11 million tons of moon dust to create a proper and effective moon dust shield, the researchers estimate in their findings.
