Uh Oh – Obama looks in to Climate Engineering

Apparently the Global Warming alarmists are convinced that the situation is so dire that we need to darken the skies or something.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say that probably won’t be a good idea. If I’ve learned one thing from Hollywood movies it’s that scientists always try to do something to save the world, but ultimately end up creating a problem much larger than what they were ultimately trying to stop. Seriously though, this is just one more thing that the Obama administration is trying to push on people in order to expand the size of government.

If the blotting out the sun technique doesn’t work they can always just try and make, wait for it, artificial trees!

Another geoengineering option he mentioned was the use of so-called artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide—the chief human-caused greenhouse gas—out of the air and store it. At first that seemed prohibitively expensive, but a re-examination of the approach shows it might be less costly, he said.

Ahem, just for the record, CO2 levels rise at a rate that follows temperature increase and not the other way around. So, if the temperature was dropping then, and only then, would CO2 levels drop by the vaccuum trees. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the trees would do nothing but gobble up CO2 from the air that actual trees would absorb and convert back in to oxygen so that humans could continue, you know, breathing.

Just sayin’.