It seems as though anyone with any sort of science background is scurrying around trying to solve the problem of global warming. Recently some (almost) geoengineers proposed a “solution” that would just make matters worse. It’s an idea that really makes me think that real and professional scientists should be left to coming up with ideas for solving global warming. Their idea? Clouding the atmosphere up with man made aerosol particles. Now, they do admit that it would deplete the ozone in “some” regions, mostly the North and South pole thus turning those regions into irradiated dead zones. But to them it seems like a pretty fair trade off to them.

These aerosol particles that would be added to our atmosphere would in theory reflect sunlight away from the earth thus cooling the planet. But when you consider that for a second… instead of investing money into long term life changing solutions we’re going to (or are proposed to) add more chemicals to our atmosphere that would shift weather patters, deplete our ozone to the point where areas of our Earth would be considered “dead zones” and it seems like such a scheme would cost a gigantic amount of money. And logically - when they STOP shoving all of it into the environment or something faults in the process we’d all be screwed.

Playing with the Earth like this is just crazy. We’ve seen time and time again the playing around with nature is rarely, if ever, a good thing. When it comes to the ozone there is so much that we don’t understand and so much that we’re still discovering. Where would geoengineers even get an idea like this? In 1991 when Mt. Pinatubo erupted and released sulfur into the atmosphere there was a direct correlation with the temperature decreasing.

All of these new fangled attempts at cooling the planet are getting out of control.

There’s the man-made volcano that shoots gigatons of sulfur high into the air. The space “sun shade” made of trillions of little reflectors between Earth and sun, slightly lowering the planet’s temperature. The forest of ugly artificial “trees” that suck carbon dioxide out of the air. And the “Geritol solution,” named after a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement with extra iron — in which iron dust is dumped into the ocean.

All of this time, energy and money is being poured into these ridiculous attempts at using science to cool the planet, when really humanity would be better of pursing changes within their industrial, economic and home lifestyles. All of these crazy ideas could lead to disastrous weather patterns, cloudy skies through which we’d never see the sun again, droughts and famine. Changes on Earth take millions of years for a reason, we can’t just start dumping tonnes of sulfur on the planet and expect everything to be okay… we certainly can’t expect things to be better after such an act.