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This Thursday night at 8:30/7:30c, ABC News Live is tackling Stratospheric Aerosol Injection, or SAI. Their special, "The Power of Us," takes a deep dive look at solar geoengineering.
The show’s host, Ginger Zee, ABC's Chief Meteorologist, is known for making complex weather phenomena understandable. When talking to her own children about climate change, she likes to uses a blanket analogy:
“We know, and figured out a long time ago, almost 200 years now, that when we burn things like oil or gas, fossil fuels, that gas goes into the atmosphere and acts like a blanket.”
Ginger finds that both kids and adults alike can understand that the thicker a blanket on your lap, the warmer you get. And when heat from the sun enters the atmosphere, it gets trapped under that blanket.
“…We have added a blanket in the last 150 years, and we haven't stopped making that blanket thicker.”
Watch as Ginger joins us for the deployment of 1,615 cooling credits:
Climate change demands action, and "The Power of Us" will explore a promising tool in our fight to protect the planet. Solar geoengineering — specifically SAI — is a way to reduce the heat that gets under that human-made blanket.