Danish Think Tank: $9B Cloud Project Could Prevent All 21st Century Global Warming

Cybercast News Service ^ | January 24, 2017 | 2:28 PM EST | Barbara Hollingsworth

[vpintheak]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Pollster1]

This idea frightens me (literally).

We don’t know what global climate will do over the next century without taking action, and past predictive performance demonstrates that our models are not good enough to give us more than a vague hint. We do, however, know exactly what would happen initially with this project. The engineering and the math are not difficult - global temperatures would drop 2-4 degrees. Initially. Climate is a chaotic system; the subsequent response to that drop could be almost anything, including (rough calculation - 15% to 30% chance) a global ice age. Because of the nonlinear nature of climate response, no one could possibly know what would happen after that cloud was generated, but putting that large a change into our climate is far more likely to be catastrophic than doing nothing would be. No, thank you!