US answer to global warming: Smoke and giant mirrors
The South African Mail and Guardian is saying US answer to global warming: Smoke and giant mirrors.
The United States government wants the world’s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the Guardian has learned.
It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be “important insurance” against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a major United Nations report on climate change, the first part of which will be published on Friday.
It puts me in mind of this classic clip from Futurama…
I expect more of this sort of lunatic thinking as the year rolls on. — DS
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