US Answer to Global Warming: Smoke and Giant Space Mirrors

Posted on January 28, 2007
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The Guardian reports that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations will issue a report this upcoming Friday on the effects of global warming. Apparently, the US has complained that the “negative effects” of global warming have been “overstated”, though they accepted that the global average temperatures will rise another 1.5-5.8 degrees Celsius by the end of the century depending on emissions. Their answer: send back the sunlight using giant orbiting screens, tiny shiny baloons or microscopic sulphate droplets to mimic volcanic dust. The IPCC draft said such ideas were “speculative, uncosted and with potential unknown side-effects.” In other words, rather than curtail corporate profits by curtailing emissions, let’s set Halliburton up with a contract to build a giant space umbrella.

Have we learned nothing from the sky-scorching in The Matrix? No, seriously, we might have to pin our hopes on Keanu Reeves – ack.

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