Sorry, yet I simply could not resist using the same headline as this LA Times article.
Giant mirrors pointing the sunlight back at the atmosphere to control the earth’s temperature is one of the solutions proposed by Dick Cheney. Why not giant fans with heaters to evaporate the ocean’s rising level? Or how about giant snow machines to reduce the polar ice cap reductions?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not going to pick only on the USA’s current administration. I think the rampant and uncontrolled development in countries like India and China which are racing to improve their population’s income level is going to catch up very very soon if you look at the carbon emissions now generated by those giants.
The world is in dire need of strong leadership that not only takes the climate change threat seriously, yet rather takes it as a challenge and invites and incents business to help come up with solutions. We have apparently created the problem and I’m not suggesting we need some type of socialist agenda to resolve it. Usually, as the japanese have shown, a combination of government vision and business focus makes for the best initiatives…as exemplified when the Japanese government decades ago, created incentives for solar power installations. Today they have virtually little incentives, yet the industry is quite dominant in the world.
Sass