{"id":265200,"date":"2023-10-19T19:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265200"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:21:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:51:44","slug":"could-marine-cloud-brightening-reduce-coral-bleaching-on-the-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/could-marine-cloud-brightening-reduce-coral-bleaching-on-the-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Could \u2018marine cloud brightening\u2019 reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span>e<b> \u201cCould \u2018marine cloud brightening\u2019 reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/span><b>The Hindu\u201d on 19th October 2023<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Australia are exploring the concept of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cmarine cloud brightening\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">potential solution<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">protect the Great Barrier Reef from heat-induced coral bleaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Marine cloud brightening?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marine cloud brightening is a proposed technique to combat global warming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is to make clouds over the ocean brighter so they reflect more sunlight back into space, which could help cool down the Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">British cloud physicist John Latham originally proposed cloud brightening in 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How does Marine cloud brightening work?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiny particles like sea salt are sprayed into clouds over the ocean.These particles attract water vapor, forming small cloud droplets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increased number of droplets makes the clouds whiter, so they reflect more sunlight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By reflecting more sunlight, less heat reaches the Earth\u2019s surface.This could potentially lower the temperature of both the atmosphere and oceans.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How can Marine cloud brightening help corals?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marine cloud brightening could help reflect sunlight back into space.This will help in cooling down the ocean surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can in turn protect underwater life, including corals and may reduce coral bleaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim behind this method is to delay coral bleaching during marine heatwaves, potentially buying more time for the reef\u2019s recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCould \u2018marine cloud brightening\u2019 reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 19th October 2023\u00a0 What is the News? Researchers in Australia are exploring the concept of \u201cmarine cloud brightening\u201d as a potential solution to protect the Great Barrier Reef from heat-induced&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/could-marine-cloud-brightening-reduce-coral-bleaching-on-the-great-barrier-reef\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could \u2018marine cloud brightening\u2019 reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-265200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":119,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698463469},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}