What could go wrong?The first trials of controversial sunshielding technology are being planned after the United Nations failed to secure agreement on cutting greenhouse gases.Maggie Simpson already shot mr. Burns for trying this fifteen years ago.
Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
The British and American scientists involved do not intend to wait for international rules on technology that deliberately alters the climate. They believe that the weak outcome of December’s climate summit in Copenhagen means that emissions will continue to rise unchecked and that the world urgently needs an alternative strategy to protect itself from global warming.
Remember, Bill Gates the guy who gave us the Windows Vista travesty. If this screws up, we cannot CTRL+ALT+DEL the resulting Blue Screen of Death.
