Scientists Blocking out the Sun

Ashtangiman writes to tell us The New York Times is running an article about geoengineering in which many solutions to global warming include decreasing the amount of sunlight that the planet sees. The ideas are not new, many have been around for quite some time, however they have been relegated to the fringes of science and many have never been published because of this. From the article: "Geoengineering is no magic bullet, Dr. Cicerone said. But done correctly, he added, it will act like an insurance policy if the world one day faces a crisis of overheating, with repercussions like melting icecaps, droughts, famines, rising sea levels and coastal flooding."

Comments

Re: The level of arrogance is astounding

[mxfuzzy]

And thousands of climatologists agree with this poster... as do I. Plenty of holes in the global warming THEORY remain. It's a shame fearmongering surrounding this issue will always win out in the media, a headline story suggesting we can all stop worrying about global warming just won't get the ratings at this point. This article is just plain scary... whether or not the global warming theory is true. God help us if society ever decides to trust the lives of everything on this planet to a group of scientists arrogant enough to claim they can tinker with the global climate on this scale.

Re:Warming

[Pharmboy]

There is nothing to gain if there isn't someone to blame, silly.

Why would any responsible journalist want to explore the possibility of global warming being partially/mainly/somewhat due to the actual SUN, if he can't push an agenda. I mean, what can you gain by making the sun look bad? ;)