The Military Industrial Complex Sunscreen to Halt Global Warming

If our CO₂ emissions turn up the heat, we'll just turn down the thermostat by living in the shade.

An intelligent comment from AJ:

"This is bar none the worst idea I have ever heard. The whole climate change problem stems directly from the law of unintended consequences. While some of these outlandish ideas might actually fix the problems they are intended to address, they are also guaranteed to create a host of other problems that we couldn't possibly hope to foresee."

That is very well said.

Speaking as a pro-environment liberal progressive, I find this apalling when Al Gore or the TED intelligentsia wax poetic about it too.



Global warming is real. It's so real it may be responsible for ending the Little Ice Age of the last millenium. It promises much chaos if the poles permanently melt over the next century, but nothing compared to the chaos another Ice Age might cause if they screw up the environment by shutting out too much sunlight.

Yes, 20 meters of water over Manhattan by 2100 would be a disaster. But a kilometer of glacial ice over every city north of the Ohio River would effectively end modern civilization, too.

Melting the poles is to be avoided, but it's not incompatible with life. Some of the most biologically diverse periods in geological history have been when the poles were melted. Massive disruption and relocations of coastal populations over a generation would happen, but fertile areas in the Northern United States, Canada, and Siberia would remain. In fact, they would expand northward, as there's a lot of new arable land that would thaw.

Civilization would adjust- barring powerful fools with nukes and Little Boots complexes.

Only idiots would intentionally block the sun to avert global warming. The cure would be far more deadly than the disease. Unfortunately there are idiots ruling everywhere. It almost seems requisite for the job description.