One of the problems with sulfates is they fall out quickly.

The destruction of the ozone layer affects the environment.

There's a bunch of papers going back to the '70s that look at the radiative and ozone ozone destroying properties of aluminum in the stratosphere, and those make you think it might be useful.

You can burn rocket fuel to get there, or you can do something really incredible.

There's lots of mystery in the details, and there's some bad side effects,

We have real time IR scans going out through the Internet while the plane is flying.

Economic expansion has resulted in increases in atmospheric nitrous oxide and methane, ozone depletion, increases in great floods, damage to ocean ecosystems, including nitrogen runoff,

Anomalies in the ozone layer, sunburst activity during that time, anything.

It's not hard it's just three oxygen atoms.

We should do more to protect the ozone layer from further damage.

Never had a problem with messing up an aquifer or anything else.

Here is the lower atmosphere.

Today the ozone layer is thinning.

This chart illustrates the function of ozone layer.

I was here to see the launch of this particular type of instrument.

But it shows that we are interconnected, among many systems on the planet, with the three big systems, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and ocean acidification being the three big systems, where the scientific evidence of large scale thresholds in the paleo record of the history of the planet.

We're picking up ionization from the upper atmosphere.

After that, and some previous volcanoes we have, you see a quite dramatic cooling of the atmosphere.

Here's Mount Pinatubo in the early '90s.

And so people took him seriously when he said we should think about this, even though there will be some ozone impacts.

The idea behind this form of geoengineering as it's called, is that, as the planet heats up, we may be able to shoot sulfates and aluminum particles into the stratosphere to reflect some of the sun's rays back to space, thereby cooling the planet.

Now, the skeptics say, Oh, wait a minute, this could be variations in this energy coming in from the sun. If that were true, the stratosphere would be heated as well as the

That's its goal the stratosphere, the blanket that really controls the radiation of the earth and permits life on earth to be the success that it is probing that is very important.

Look here, you see the seven billion people up there the air people, the wash people, the bulb people and the fire people.

Poor, poor, Mindy.

I was there to view something called a long duration balloon flight, which basically takes telescopes and instruments all the way to the upper atmosphere, the upper stratosphere, 40 km up.

I personally consider this ongoing toxic dumping into our atmosphere to be, along with nuclear radiation, the most dangerous threats to our health and to our environment.

But it looks like we could achieve long atmospheric lifetimes much longer than before because they're levitated.

The ocean contains most of the exchangeable heat on the planet.

NARRATOR Connecticut.

And a process that would happen in the machine would mean layer by layer that product would be built.

Planar

You don't need that much up there.

It all comes out of the equity tranche.

Hierarchical

Skyscraper!

You can analyze your breakfast cereal for GMO's, and you can explore your ancestry.

But we are filling up that thin shell of atmosphere with pollution.

Without the ozone layer, we would be in danger.

If not for the ozone layer, we would be in imminent danger.

By the age of 12 or 14, they'd become beggars and drug addicts.

You could put signed particles, say sulfuric acid particles sulfates into the upper atmosphere, the stratosphere, where they'd reflect away sunlight and cool the planet.

I want to use the other tool.

Six months the second level and the third level...

I'm gonna draw a rectangle to correspond to the little rectangle I drew on the heart itself.