Guardian: Food crops could be used to keep the Earth’s temperatures down and slow global warming, say scientists. By growing plants that can reflect more of the sun’s radiation back into space, parts of Europe and North America could be cooled by 1°C in the summer, the equivalent of stopping billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere over the next century. Growing agricultural plants such as maize or barley already cools the climate because they reflect more sunlight back …