In November 2005, for example, Yuri Izrael, head of the ­Moscow-­based Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Studies, wrote to Russian president Vladimir Putin to make the case for immediately burning massive amounts of sulfur in the stratosphere to lower the earth’s temperature “a degree or two”—a correction greater than the total warming since ­pre-­industrial ­times.
Kwa mfano, mwezi wa Novemba 2005, Yuri Izrael, mkuu wa Taasisi ya Global Climate and Ecology Studies yenye makao yake Moscow, alimwandikia rais wa Urusi Vladimir Putin kutoa kesi ya kuchoma mara moja kiasi kikubwa cha salfa katika stratosphere ili kupunguza joto la dunia “ shahada moja au mbili”—sahihisho kubwa kuliko ongezeko la joto tangu nyakati za kabla ya viwanda.