Frustrated by politicians, scientists have been working on “last-minute schemes” to battle climate change that are lovingly classified as “geo-engineering.” Here is one such scheme:
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, US, and colleagues say that it may be possible to mitigate global warming caused by increased carbon dioxide levels by enhancing the reflectivity of low-lying clouds above the oceans. They want to build a fleet of 1,500 custom-built ocean-going vessels to spray salt water into the sky to help build cloud density to reflect solar energy back into space. It is estimated that a fleet of 300-tin unmanned vessels would cost over $60 billon just to build, starting with 50 per year.
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In the 1790’s, William Small proposed to the Lunar Society (made up of such men as James Watt and Joseph Priestley) that polar ice be blown up and towed to the tropics as ice bergs. Thus, the great global cooling problem of the time would be countered by removing ice from the freezing north and a side benefit of giant air conditioners in the tropics. A “perpetual summer” would have been created all over the Earth.
Now, rather than growing too fast, the glaciers and other ice are melting too fast, apparently.
Well, at least this will make for a good New Deal II project.