Despite my previous caveats over the use of the phrase, this may very well be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard ? Obama May Block Sun’s Rays to End Global Warming:
The president’s new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air.
John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed.
One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.
“It’s got to be looked at,” he said. “We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table.”
There’s the Statist’s Table again; that thing must have an incredibly strong magnetic attraction for ridiculous notions, because once they’re “on” the table, they can’t be “taken off.”
The U.S. government is apparently seriously considering permanently placing particulate matter in the Earth’s atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. That cannot be undone. If (as is increasingly evident) they are wrong, or regardless if there are unforeseen consequences (as there inevitably are in government), it will be too late.
The real climate “tipping point” past which there is no return, only mayhem for everyone on the planet, is if governmental hubris goes so far as to think that not only can they change the laws of economics, but they can also control the entire world’s climate forever from Washington, D.C.
Epilogue: This quotation from Obama’s science adviser is instructive:
Holdren compared _________ to being “in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog.”
Holdren filled that blank in with global warming, but the quote would be much more accurate if he had said instead:
Holdren compared [using the coercive power of government to fight global warming now despite our very limited understanding of climate change and mankind’s influence, if any, on it] to being “in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog.”
